provided by Star2Billing S.L.

Normally I wouldn't advertise this sort of thing until there was a bug fix, but in this case it's a quick config change fortunately.

Description:

If a call is directed to a SIP device (phone etc) that has number forwarding set, the forwarded call is not accounted for in A2Billing, though it does appear in the log files. The entries in A2Billing show zero call duration. As far as I can tell, a second instance of the agi is called, which the primary instance has no knowledge of. This occurs when the phone issues a 302 redirect. I get the same results when using DID inbound.

It makes sense that redirects be done within A2billing via DID, so the solution is to disable redirects in the dial command

The following flag (i) is decribed below



As far as I can tell this has been in asterisk since 1.09, but you might want to verify it's in 1.2

Change:

The change is simple, edit the following in a2billing.conf

dialcommand_param_sipiax_friend = "|60|HL(3600000:61000:30000)"

and replace with

dialcommand_param_sipiax_friend = "|60|iHL(3600000:61000:30000)"

note the i just before HL(

regards

Good catch!

I can't see any downside to using 'i' in the dialcommand_param, and I'll certainly be using it on all my installs.

Would be a good idea if this was the default setting in the sample .conf file. I simply cannot see why it should be otherwise as it completely bypasses A2B. Anyone who doesn't use the flag is going to be losing money big time

regards