asterisk users - Sep 2012 - 100 outgoing calls - 10 at a time - /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/

Hi,

Is there a way to move 100 .call files in to
/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ at once and have Asterisk call at
maximum 10 at a time?

The maxcalls setting in asterisk.conf will limit the number of calls
but not gracefully. The calls over 10 just fail. I need to queue them
up.

I can certainly write a program to limit the number of simultaneous
outgoing calls but before I do that I thought I would ask if there is
another solution.

Thanks in advance.

Rock on, PLA

Patrick L Archibald
http://PatrickArchibald.com

On 09/28/2012 03:01 AM, Patrick Archibald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to move 100 .call files in to
> /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ at once and have Asterisk call at
> maximum 10 at a time?
Afaik that is not possible. Wouldn't it make more sense to move call 
files in batches of 10 to outgoing/?

Regards,
Patrick

On Friday 28 September 2012, Patrick Archibald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to move 100 .call files in to
> /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ at once and have Asterisk call at
> maximum 10 at a time?
Yes:  Move them in batches of 10.  Could be as simple as
last if ++$n_files > 9;
if the script is in Perl.

You know how many calls you can deal with at once; it's up to you to stay 
within your own limits.  Asterisk just tries its damnedest to do whatever
it's
been told, without imposing any sort of judgement as to whether it's sane or
wholesome.


-- 
AJS

Answers come *after* questions.

On 27/09/12 09:01 PM, Patrick Archibald wrote:
> Is there a way to move 100 .call files in to
> /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ at once and have Asterisk call at
> maximum 10 at a time?
<snip>
> I can certainly write a program to limit the number of simultaneous
> outgoing calls but before I do that I thought I would ask if there is
> another solution.
Generally the preferred method when you're doing this programatically 
anyways is to use an external script through the Asterisk Manager 
Interface to generate your calls.

Luckily, Russell Bryant has recently create an amioriginate.py[0] script 
which he's using as an example in the upcoming Asterisk: The Definitive 
Guide 4e book.

[0] https://github.com/russellb/amiutils


-- 
Leif Madsen
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk