7 thoughts on - Debugging Dialplan

• Hi Luca,

  try ‘dialplan show @‘.

  Regards, Sebastian

• Zitat von Sebastian Kemper :

  Hello Sebastian

  Thanks a lot!
  Is there an option to check all?
  What I mean is: if someone call a number, Asterisk go through the
  dialplan and try to send the call to the extension. Now, I want to “simulate” the same. I know the source and the destination number. I’m not sure how can I
  know the context. How can I say Asterisk “what do you want to do with the call from X to Y”?

  Thanks Luca Bertoncello
  (lucabert@lucabert.de)

• Yes, it is called “core set verbose 42”, the other options is “core set debug 42”. Enjoy the show!

  Once you are more familiar with *, you might want to have a look what you can do with logger.conf.

  jg

• Zitat von jg :

  OK, thanks, but with this option I can just debug what happens if I
  call an extension right now… I’d like to have a command to ask Asterisk how it will handle a call…

  Maybe later…

  Thanks Luca Bertoncello
  (lucabert@lucabert.de)

• Hi Luca,

  It’s not the A number you have to look at if you want to know how a call comes into the dialplan and then goes out again. You want do know in which context a call arrives. That depends on things like the IP address (peer), username/password (friend) or other things.

  I suggest to read up on that using the Internet (there are e.g. wiki articles about this subject) or a book (e.g. “Definitive Guide on Asterisk”).

  Regards, Sebastian

  Am 29. Mai 2015 09:42:55 MESZ, schrieb Luca Bertoncello :

• Please don’t top post.

  I know you can specify a level to the verbose application, but is anything in Asterisk ‘hard-coded’ for debug or verbose above 6? (And yes, I know the significance of ’42’ in pop culture.)

  You can use the ‘dialplan’ command to get a clue. For example, I have this context in a dialplan:

  ; meetme-star-menu
  ; 1 say private meeting number
  ; 3 enter private room
  ; 456 go to the admin menu
  [meetme-star-menu](h,s)
  exten = i,1, verbose(1,[${EXTEN}@${CONTEXT}!${ANI}])
  exten = i,n, goto(enter-room,s,1)
  exten = t,1, verbose(1,[${EXTEN}@${CONTEXT}!${ANI}])
  exten = t,n, goto(enter-room,s,1)
  ; say private meeting number
  exten = 1,1, verbose(1,[${EXTEN}@${CONTEXT}!${ANI}])
  exten = 1,n, saydigits(${PRIVATE-CODE})
  exten = 1,n, goto(enter-room,s,1)
  ; enter private room
  exten = 3,1, verbose(1,[${EXTEN}@${CONTEXT}!${ANI}])
  exten = 3,n, goto(private-lounge,s,1)
  ; admin functions
  exten = _[456],1, verbose(1,[${EXTEN}@${CONTEXT}!${ANI}])
  exten = _[456],n, gotoif($[“TRUE” = “${ADMIN}”] ?meetme-star-admin-menu,${EXTEN},1)
  exten = _[456],n, goto(enter-room,s,1)

  I can ask Asterisk what happens if the caller enters ‘5’ like:

  joy10:joy:08:50:18> dialplan show 5@meetme-star-menu
  [ Context ‘meetme-star-menu’ created by ‘pbx_config’ ]
  ‘_[456]’ => 1. verbose(1,[${EXTEN}@${CONTEXT}!${ANI}]) [pbx_config]
  2. gotoif($[“TRUE” = “${ADMIN}”] ?meetme-star-admin-menu,${EXTEN},1) [pbx_config]
  3. goto(enter-room,s,1) [pbx_config]

  If I ask what happens if a caller enters 7, I get:

  joy10:joy:08:51:42> dialplan show 7@meetme-star-menu There is no existence of 7@meetme-star-menu extension

  In which case, I could ask what Asterisk will do with an invalid extension:

  joy10:joy:08:52:19> dialplan show i@meetme-star-menu
  [ Context ‘meetme-star-menu’ created by ‘pbx_config’ ]
  ‘i’ => 1. verbose(1,[${EXTEN}@${CONTEXT}!${ANI}]) [pbx_config]
  2. goto(enter-room,s,1) [pbx_config]

  Note the format of my verbose() arguments. It makes it easy to
  ‘cut-n-paste’ in a ‘dialplan show’ command.

• This is an old dialplan. Now I would use ‘same = n.’