2 ; Asterisk Call Detail Record engine configuration
4 ; CDR is Call Detail Record, which provides logging services via a variety of
5 ; pluggable backend modules. Detailed call information can be recorded to
6 ; databases, files, etc. Useful for billing, fraud prevention, compliance with
7 ; Sarbanes-Oxley aka The Enron Act, QOS evaluations, and more.
12 ; Define whether or not to use CDR logging. Setting this to "no" will override
13 ; any loading of backend CDR modules. Default is "yes".
16 ; Define whether or not to log unanswered calls. Setting this to "yes" will
17 ; report every attempt to ring a phone in dialing attempts, when it was not
18 ; answered. For example, if you try to dial 3 extensions, and this option is "yes",
19 ; you will get 3 CDR's, one for each phone that was rung. Default is "no". Some
20 ; find this information horribly useless. Others find it very valuable. Note, in "yes"
21 ; mode, you will see one CDR, with one of the call targets on one side, and the originating
22 ; channel on the other, and then one CDR for each channel attempted. This may seem
23 ; redundant, but cannot be helped.
25 ; In brief, this option controls the reporting of unanswered calls which only have an A
26 ; party. Calls which get offered to an outgoing line, but are unanswered, are still
27 ; logged, and that is the intended behaviour. (It also results in some B side CDRs being
28 ; output, as they have the B side channel as their source channel, and no destination
32 ; Define whether or not to log congested calls. Setting this to "yes" will
33 ; report each call that fails to complete due to congestion conditions. Default
37 ; Normally, CDR's are not closed out until after all extensions are finished
38 ; executing. By enabling this option, the CDR will be ended before executing
39 ; the "h" extension and hangup handlers so that CDR values such as "end" and
40 ; "billsec" may be retrieved inside of of this extension.
41 ; The default value is "no".
44 ; Normally, the 'billsec' field logged to the backends (text files or databases)
45 ; is simply the end time (hangup time) minus the answer time in seconds. Internally,
46 ; asterisk stores the time in terms of microseconds and seconds. By setting
47 ; initiatedseconds to 'yes', you can force asterisk to report any seconds
48 ; that were initiated (a sort of round up method). Technically, this is
49 ; when the microsecond part of the end time is greater than the microsecond
50 ; part of the answer time, then the billsec time is incremented one second.
51 ; The default value is "no".
54 ; Define the CDR batch mode, where instead of posting the CDR at the end of
55 ; every call, the data will be stored in a buffer to help alleviate load on the
56 ; asterisk server. Default is "no".
58 ; WARNING WARNING WARNING
59 ; Use of batch mode may result in data loss after unsafe asterisk termination
60 ; ie. software crash, power failure, kill -9, etc.
61 ; WARNING WARNING WARNING
65 ; Define the maximum number of CDRs to accumulate in the buffer before posting
66 ; them to the backend engines. 'batch' must be set to 'yes'. Default is 100.
69 ; Define the maximum time to accumulate CDRs in the buffer before posting them
70 ; to the backend engines. If this time limit is reached, then it will post the
71 ; records, regardless of the value defined for 'size'. 'batch' must be set to
72 ; 'yes'. Note that time is in seconds. Default is 300 (5 minutes).
75 ; The CDR engine uses the internal asterisk scheduler to determine when to post
76 ; records. Posting can either occur inside the scheduler thread, or a new
77 ; thread can be spawned for the submission of every batch. For small batches,
78 ; it might be acceptable to just use the scheduler thread, so set this to "yes".
79 ; For large batches, say anything over size=10, a new thread is recommended, so
80 ; set this to "no". Default is "no".
83 ; When shutting down asterisk, you can block until the CDRs are submitted. If
84 ; you don't, then data will likely be lost. You can always check the size of
85 ; the CDR batch buffer with the CLI "cdr status" command. To enable blocking on
86 ; submission of CDR data during asterisk shutdown, set this to "yes". Default
92 ; CHOOSING A CDR "BACKEND" (what kind of output to generate)
94 ; To choose a backend, you have to make sure either the right category is
95 ; defined in this file, or that the appropriate config file exists, and has the
96 ; proper definitions in it. If there are any problems, usually, the entry will
97 ; silently ignored, and you get no output.
99 ; Also, please note that you can generate CDR records in as many formats as you
100 ; wish. If you configure 5 different CDR formats, then each event will be logged
101 ; in 5 different places! In the example config files, all formats are commented
102 ; out except for the cdr-csv format.
104 ; Here are all the possible back ends:
106 ; csv, custom, manager, odbc, pgsql, radius, sqlite, tds
107 ; (also, mysql is available via the asterisk-addons, due to licensing
109 ; (please note, also, that other backends can be created, by creating
110 ; a new backend module in the source cdr/ directory!)
112 ; Some of the modules required to provide these backends will not build or install
113 ; unless some dependency requirements are met. Examples of this are pgsql, odbc,
114 ; etc. If you are not getting output as you would expect, the first thing to do
115 ; is to run the command "make menuselect", and check what modules are available,
116 ; by looking in the "2. Call Detail Recording" option in the main menu. If your
117 ; backend is marked with XXX, you know that the "configure" command could not find
118 ; the required libraries for that option.
120 ; To get CDRs to be logged to the plain-jane /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv
121 ; file, define the [csv] category in this file. No database necessary. The example
122 ; config files are set up to provide this kind of output by default.
124 ; To get custom csv CDR records, make sure the cdr_custom.conf file
125 ; is present, and contains the proper [mappings] section. The advantage to
126 ; using this backend, is that you can define which fields to output, and in
127 ; what order. By default, the example configs are set up to mimic the cdr-csv
128 ; output. If you don't make any changes to the mappings, you are basically generating
129 ; the same thing as cdr-csv, but expending more CPU cycles to do so!
131 ; To get manager events generated, make sure the cdr_manager.conf file exists,
132 ; and the [general] section is defined, with the single variable 'enabled = yes'.
134 ; For odbc, make sure all the proper libs are installed, that "make menuselect"
135 ; shows that the modules are available, and the cdr_odbc.conf file exists, and
136 ; has a [global] section with the proper variables defined.
138 ; For pgsql, make sure all the proper libs are installed, that "make menuselect"
139 ; shows that the modules are available, and the cdr_pgsql.conf file exists, and
140 ; has a [global] section with the proper variables defined.
142 ; For logging to radius databases, make sure all the proper libs are installed, that
143 ; "make menuselect" shows that the modules are available, and the [radius]
144 ; category is defined in this file, and in that section, make sure the 'radiuscfg'
145 ; variable is properly pointing to an existing radiusclient.conf file.
147 ; For logging to sqlite databases, make sure the 'cdr.db' file exists in the log directory,
148 ; which is usually /var/log/asterisk. Of course, the proper libraries should be available
149 ; during the 'configure' operation.
151 ; For tds logging, make sure the proper libraries are available during the 'configure'
152 ; phase, and that cdr_tds.conf exists and is properly set up with a [global] category.
154 ; Also, remember, that if you wish to log CDR info to a database, you will have to define
155 ; a specific table in that databse to make things work! See the doc directory for more details
156 ; on how to create this table in each database.
160 usegmtime=yes ; log date/time in GMT. Default is "no"
161 loguniqueid=yes ; log uniqueid. Default is "no"
162 loguserfield=yes ; log user field. Default is "no"
163 accountlogs=yes ; create separate log file for each account code. Default is "yes"
166 ;usegmtime=yes ; log date/time in GMT
167 ;loguniqueid=yes ; log uniqueid
168 ;loguserfield=yes ; log user field
169 ; Set this to the location of the radiusclient-ng configuration file
170 ; The default is /etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf
171 ;radiuscfg => /usr/local/etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf