Re: [sipX-dev] XECS-845 - Emergency call notification
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Lawrence [mailto:slawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 11:04 -0400, Carolyn Beeton wrote:
> > It has been suggested to me that an alarm could be raised
> when a call
> > is placed through the Emergency dial plan. This would
> cause generic
> > alarm handling - an email to a configured (list of?) administrators
> > would be sent and the alarm would be logged, along with whatever
> > parameters we can get at time of invocation.
>
>
> > The issue http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XECS-845
> floats a lot of
> > possibilities, which are beyond the scope of this inquiry. I would
> > just like to get opinions on whether it is worth adding an
> alarm for
> > this case, which could probably be done very quickly (i.e. in this
> > release). Of course, it would not fire if the set routes emergency
> > numbers out directly.
>
> How would the alarm recognize an "Emergency" call? Any dial
> plan can be constructed to route to an emergency destination,
> and those differ by locality. In some localities there are
> many different emergency numbers.
>
> If we need a notification feature as described in that issue
> (and I think it's a great idea), then I think it should be
> dealt with by providing a mechanism that is actually
> stimulated by any call to a particular number - that is, for
> example, a daemon that converts an incoming INVITE (forked by
> the dial plan) into an IM or email notice. I suppose that
> this could be integrated into the alarm implementation, but I
> suspect that it's actually a distributed service.
>
Well, "how" was going to be the next question, if it seemed worth
considering.
Could it be triggered in the redirect server, based on a setting
for the Emergency dial plan rule?
Carolyn
