[Serusers] Conditional fr_inv_timer/failure routes and LCR

[Jiri Kuthan]

At 12:29 AM 8/27/2004, Ray Jackson wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We have been using Ser and the RTP proxy for several months now and are hugely
>impressed with it's stability and flexibility.  Now we want to take it to the
>next level and start offering Voicemail services, Call Forwarding and LCR
>(least cost routing).
>
>For voice mail we have a separate UM system which we can redirect calls to if an
>invite hasn't been acknowledge for 25 seconds using:
>
> 'modparam("tm", "fr_inv_timer", 25 )
>
>.. along with a simple failure_route with an append_branch directive.
>
>However, we only want this to apply to 'Inbound' calls.  Most of our users make
>calls out of our gateways to the PSTN.  Is there any way we can only apply the
>Invite timer where the number is one in the location table?  At the moment,
>voicemail works fine for inbound calls but people making calls out also get
>caught by the fr_invite_timer statement and we don't want this to happen!

http://www.iptel.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=118

>Also, we are looking at LCR and the ability for Ser to dynamically select from a
>MySQL database which route a given call should take, either by using digit
>manipulation or selecting a particular gateway.  Can this be done in Ser, or do
>we have to create the rules manually in the Ser config and restart Ser?

That's a feature which is missing.

-jiri