Setup & CDR Suggestions

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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Hello,

I have just started learning the asterisk. I want to setup asterisk which can handle more than thousand calls…

Asterisk should dial a call, collect the response from the called no, and enter it to the database.

I have tried to setup this by writting a agi script which dials a particular number, collects the response (DTMF digit). Now using the manager api i originate a call (which is generated using above agi script).

on particular extension say 123 this agi script is called…

In manager api i use the commands like this…
Action: Originate
Channel: SIP/ivan
Exten:123
Context:tutorial
Priority:1

The above command call the agi script and asterisk will generate a call to SIP/ivan… I am using the same thing to generate the multiple calls just by changing the channel…

Example:

AGI script : AGI script dial the number and play the file…
suppose the user pressed 1 - reject the call if 9 - Play thank you and then hangup the call… Asterisk can generate the CDR, but how can i add this pressed digits (response by user) to the database, to keep the record of user response…

My Questions:

  1. Will this scenario be appropriate to handle more than thousands of calls?
  2. how can i add the given response (DTMF) to the database.
  3. Please suggest me, what can be the best approach to achieve this task?

Regards,

Jigar Thakkar.

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It will work, not sure about 1000 concurrant calls but it will work. To get 1000 calls at the same time youw ill need a very large server.
To get 1000 calls total you can let it run for an hour doing 5-30 calls at a time. You will need something to manage the sending of calls, this is called a predictive dialer. check out a package called vicidial…

Also there should be no need

As for how to store it, I’d have your agi connect to a MySQL database and write the relevant info (number called, result, date/time called, etc).

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Thanks a lot for your kind reply…