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.
26 ; Define the CDR batch mode, where instead of posting the CDR at the end of
27 ; every call, the data will be stored in a buffer to help alleviate load on the
28 ; asterisk server. Default is "no".
30 ; WARNING WARNING WARNING
31 ; Use of batch mode may result in data loss after unsafe asterisk termination
32 ; ie. software crash, power failure, kill -9, etc.
33 ; WARNING WARNING WARNING
37 ; Define the maximum number of CDRs to accumulate in the buffer before posting
38 ; them to the backend engines. 'batch' must be set to 'yes'. Default is 100.
41 ; Define the maximum time to accumulate CDRs in the buffer before posting them
42 ; to the backend engines. If this time limit is reached, then it will post the
43 ; records, regardless of the value defined for 'size'. 'batch' must be set to
44 ; 'yes'. Note that time is in seconds. Default is 300 (5 minutes).
47 ; The CDR engine uses the internal asterisk scheduler to determine when to post
48 ; records. Posting can either occur inside the scheduler thread, or a new
49 ; thread can be spawned for the submission of every batch. For small batches,
50 ; it might be acceptable to just use the scheduler thread, so set this to "yes".
51 ; For large batches, say anything over size=10, a new thread is recommended, so
52 ; set this to "no". Default is "no".
55 ; When shutting down asterisk, you can block until the CDRs are submitted. If
56 ; you don't, then data will likely be lost. You can always check the size of
57 ; the CDR batch buffer with the CLI "cdr status" command. To enable blocking on
58 ; submission of CDR data during asterisk shutdown, set this to "yes". Default
62 ; Normally, CDR's are not closed out until after all extensions are finished
63 ; executing. By enabling this option, the CDR will be ended before executing
64 ; the "h" extension so that CDR values such as "end" and "billsec" may be
65 ; retrieved inside of of this extension.
68 ; Normally, the 'billsec' field logged to the backends (text files or databases)
69 ; is simply the end time (hangup time) minus the answer time in seconds. Internally,
70 ; asterisk stores the time in terms of microseconds and seconds. By setting
71 ; initiatedseconds to 'yes', you can force asterisk to report any seconds
72 ; that were initiated (a sort of round up method). Technically, this is
73 ; when the microsecond part of the end time is greater than the microsecond
74 ; part of the answer time, then the billsec time is incremented one second.
79 ; CHOOSING A CDR "BACKEND" (what kind of output to generate)
81 ; To choose a backend, you have to make sure either the right category is
82 ; defined in this file, or that the appropriate config file exists, and has the
83 ; proper definitions in it. If there are any problems, usually, the entry will
84 ; silently ignored, and you get no output.
86 ; Also, please note that you can generate CDR records in as many formats as you
87 ; wish. If you configure 5 different CDR formats, then each event will be logged
88 ; in 5 different places! In the example config files, all formats are commented
89 ; out except for the cdr-csv format.
91 ; Here are all the possible back ends:
93 ; csv, custom, manager, odbc, pgsql, radius, sqlite, tds
94 ; (also, mysql is available via the asterisk-addons, due to licensing
96 ; (please note, also, that other backends can be created, by creating
97 ; a new backend module in the source cdr/ directory!)
99 ; Some of the modules required to provide these backends will not build or install
100 ; unless some dependency requirements are met. Examples of this are pgsql, odbc,
101 ; etc. If you are not getting output as you would expect, the first thing to do
102 ; is to run the command "make menuselect", and check what modules are available,
103 ; by looking in the "2. Call Detail Recording" option in the main menu. If your
104 ; backend is marked with XXX, you know that the "configure" command could not find
105 ; the required libraries for that option.
107 ; To get CDRs to be logged to the plain-jane /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv
108 ; file, define the [csv] category in this file. No database necessary. The example
109 ; config files are set up to provide this kind of output by default.
111 ; To get custom csv CDR records, make sure the cdr_custom.conf file
112 ; is present, and contains the proper [mappings] section. The advantage to
113 ; using this backend, is that you can define which fields to output, and in
114 ; what order. By default, the example configs are set up to mimic the cdr-csv
115 ; output. If you don't make any changes to the mappings, you are basically generating
116 ; the same thing as cdr-csv, but expending more CPU cycles to do so!
118 ; To get manager events generated, make sure the cdr_manager.conf file exists,
119 ; and the [general] section is defined, with the single variable 'enabled = yes'.
121 ; For odbc, make sure all the proper libs are installed, that "make menuselect"
122 ; shows that the modules are available, and the cdr_odbc.conf file exists, and
123 ; has a [global] section with the proper variables defined.
125 ; For pgsql, make sure all the proper libs are installed, that "make menuselect"
126 ; shows that the modules are available, and the cdr_pgsql.conf file exists, and
127 ; has a [global] section with the proper variables defined.
129 ; For logging to radius databases, make sure all the proper libs are installed, that
130 ; "make menuselect" shows that the modules are available, and the [radius]
131 ; category is defined in this file, and in that section, make sure the 'radiuscfg'
132 ; variable is properly pointing to an existing radiusclient.conf file.
134 ; For logging to sqlite databases, make sure the 'cdr.db' file exists in the log directory,
135 ; which is usually /var/log/asterisk. Of course, the proper libraries should be available
136 ; during the 'configure' operation.
138 ; For tds logging, make sure the proper libraries are available during the 'configure'
139 ; phase, and that cdr_tds.conf exists and is properly set up with a [global] category.
141 ; Also, remember, that if you wish to log CDR info to a database, you will have to define
142 ; a specific table in that databse to make things work! See the doc directory for more details
143 ; on how to create this table in each database.
147 usegmtime=yes ; log date/time in GMT. Default is "no"
148 loguniqueid=yes ; log uniqueid. Default is "no"
149 loguserfield=yes ; log user field. Default is "no"
152 ;usegmtime=yes ; log date/time in GMT
153 ;loguniqueid=yes ; log uniqueid
154 ;loguserfield=yes ; log user field
155 ; Set this to the location of the radiusclient-ng configuration file
156 ; The default is /etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf
157 ;radiuscfg => /usr/local/etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf