system toolbox » voip

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On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 12:59, Brian Capouch wrote:

I hope this doesn't sound dumb. . . I would like to try to send a
command to asterisk (or otherwise invoke an instance of asterisk) to
make a phone call to a given number, and then play a voice file.

What I'm after is the ability to have my "systems up" monitoring
apparatus make some calls in case there are problems. Ideally, I could
choose the message based on input from the monitoring program.

Is this going to be heavy-duty programming, or might there be an example
of such out there somewhere?

AGI is for dealing with inprogress calls. Construct a sample.call file
to call out and play the message you need. sample.call is in the
asterisk cvs checkout. You would want something that looks like below.

--Sample.call--
Channel: Zap/g1/9XXXXXX
MaxRetries: 5
RetryTime: 60
WaitTime: 30

Application: Play
Data: DNS-down
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