Asterisk CLI multiple commands?

Asterisk Asterisk Support
#1

Is it possible to execute 2 or more commands in one CLI remote connection with -rx option? :thinking:

For example:
asterisk -rx "core show version; core show channels; sip set debug off"
Which means 1 connection, 3 commands and 3 outputs.

Instead of:
asterisk -rx "core show version"; asterisk -rx "core show channels"; asterisk -rx "sip set debug off"
Which means 3 connections with single command.

#2

Nope. 1 command per invocation.

Why is it an issue? What are you trying to accomplish?

(And just an FYI, the ‘r’ in ‘-rx’ is redundant. ‘-x’ implies ‘-r’)

#3

Thank you for answer! It’s not an issue.

I made mistake by using linux
nohup asterisk -rx "channel originate bla bla bla" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
command in my application for ultra fast calls bulks. Because I didn’t know about CLI connection limits (only 128 active connections).

Now I have to use AMI for this, but I’m lazy and just wanted for fast solution :rofl:
If I remove nohup it will fix problem, but calls will originate not so fast in cycle (because it will connect to cli, then execute command, and will wait for output).
I don’t want to use old method - callfiles. AMI is the best way for this in my opinion.

#4

Why no love for call files? They have some advantages over originate and AMI – and some disadvantages :slight_smile:

#5

Partial file reading, Creating a lot of files in one folder, Then move them to another folder - It is cringe in 2k21 :grin:

I’ll try to redesign my app code to use AMI instead of asterisk -x in weekends. I hope I can overcome my laziness.

If I can’t - I have an idea: originate some weird command like
channel originate Local\number1*number2*number3*number999@my-super-context/n application someapplication.
And in my-super-context try to cut numbers with ${CUT} by * symbol and dial each of them with While dialplan function :thinking:

Another idea:

  1. use asterisk -r command in my application
  2. wait for some output
  3. spam originate commands without any waiting for output

Second idea is not so good.

#6

If you are creating the files in a directory on the same file system as your spool directory this should not be a issue. If the file systems are different, mv becomes cp and you can get partial files.

Just out of curiosity, how many calls are you trying to initiate at once?

#7

Maximum - 300 calls initialize in 1 second.

I have a SIP trunk with 300 concurrent calls availability.
Before making a bulk, my application first checks the number of free channels in SIP trunk (off course with asterisk -rx + grep + sed command) .

Usually in my app ~3000-10000 calls are made per day + SMS.
It’s not only for notifying, users are using a speech recognition + synthesize + another dificult call scenarios.

If user create some bulks with 10000 numbers, my app have to call them ASAP.

While I had a trunk with 100 simultaneous calls, there were no problems. After the provider increased the channels to 300, problems began with nohup+asterisk -rx :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

Now instead of resting on the weekend I have to rewrite the code to AMI or call files.

BTW how fast is AMI originating and call files? Will it handle 300 calls initialize in 1 second?

#8

AMI is probably your best choice. I’ve never tried originating a bunch of calls via AMI.