Get active calls overtime

JaredBusch

I need to track the active calls over time on an Asterisk based system.

I know that i can get the information from the asterisk command core show channels

I know I can manually monitor it per second with watch -n 1 "asterisk -x 'core show channels' | grep 'active calls'"

How can I get this logged to a file with the timestamp?

Setup a cron to run every second and append a file? something else?

black3dynamite

Something like this?

#!/bin/bash                                                                     
ActiveCallDateTime=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
asterisk -x 'core show channels' | grep 'active calls' > activecalls-$ActiveCallDateTime.log

manxam

I can't think of a way aside from cron every X seconds. I'd dump it into a csv file with just the timestamp and the number of calls. E.g.

#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -f /var/log/activecalls.csv ]; then 
   echo "Timestamp,Calls" > /var/log/activecalls.csv
fi
DateTime=`date "+%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S"`
echo -ne "\n$DateTime,"  >> /var/log/activecalls.csv
asterisk -x 'core show channels' | grep 'active calls' | cut -d " " -f1

Which SHOULD create a nice csv for you...

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