[HELP] Count outgoing minutes, then switch outbound provider

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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Help!

Is there a way to get Asterisk (or A@H) to count the number of outgoing minutes used in a month, then switch outbound providers when a certain threshold is reached?

Say I have a business plan that allows 1000 minutes, but then addtional minutes are 4 cents a minute. Now, obviously I can do a lot better than 4 cents/minute with a minutes provider, but I sure don’t want to lose my first 1000 “free” minutes every month.

Ideally, Asterisk tracks all outbound calls to this provider (doesn’t have to be “super” precise, just approximately- even willing to round all calls up to nearest minute, etc.) then automatically switches my preferred outbound provider when a preset limit (in my case 1000 minutes) is reached. Of course, at the end of a month Asterisk would need to switch back to the original provider, until the threshold is met again.

Any provision for that, that anyone knows of?

Thanks!

  • Paul
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Bump…

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Hi there,

If you’re using some SQL backend for CDR records you can just run a query like this “SELECT SUM(billsec) FROM cdr_table WHERE MONTH(calldate) = MONTH(NOW())” from an AGI script and see how much seconds you have used for the current month.

Hope this helps you.

Stoyan

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Thanks Stoyan.

MySQL, for CDR, so I’ll take your query and see if I can’t write something to change the ordering of the outbound trunks based on minutes used.

I was hoping there was an “automatic” way in which Asterisk could be instructed to do that itself, but apparently not!

  • Paul