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diff --git a/trunk/doc/tex/billing.tex b/trunk/doc/tex/billing.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9fae40be8 --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/doc/tex/billing.tex @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +\section{Applications} + +\begin{itemize} + \item SetAccount - Set account code for billing + \item SetAMAFlags - Sets AMA flags + \item NoCDR - Make sure no CDR is saved for a specific call + \item ResetCDR - Reset CDR + \item ForkCDR - Save current CDR and start a new CDR for this call + \item Authenticate - Authenticates and sets the account code + \item SetCDRUserField - Set CDR user field + \item AppendCDRUserField - Append data to CDR User field +\end{itemize} + +For more information, use the "core show application $<$application$>$" command. +You can set default account codes and AMA flags for devices in +channel configuration files, like sip.conf, iax.conf etc. + +\section{Fields of the CDR in Asterisk} + +\begin{itemize} + \item accountcode: What account number to use, (string, 20 characters) + \item src: Caller*ID number (string, 80 characters) + \item dst: Destination extension (string, 80 characters) + \item dcontext: Destination context (string, 80 characters) + \item clid: Caller*ID with text (80 characters) + \item channel: Channel used (80 characters) + \item dstchannel: Destination channel if appropriate (80 characters) + \item lastapp: Last application if appropriate (80 characters) + \item lastdata: Last application data (arguments) (80 characters) + \item start: Start of call (date/time) + \item answer: Answer of call (date/time) + \item end: End of call (date/time) + \item duration: Total time in system, in seconds (integer), from dial to hangup + \item billsec: Total time call is up, in seconds (integer), from answer to hangup + \item disposition: What happened to the call: ANSWERED, NO ANSWER, BUSY + \item amaflags: What flags to use: DOCUMENTATION, BILL, IGNORE etc, + specified on a per channel basis like accountcode. + \item user field: A user-defined field, maximum 255 characters +\end{itemize} + +In some cases, uniqueid is appended: + +\begin{itemize} + \item uniqueid: Unique Channel Identifier (32 characters) + This needs to be enabled in the source code at compile time +\end{itemize} + +NOTE: If you use IAX2 channels for your calls, and allow 'full' transfers +(not media-only transfers), then when the calls is transferred the server +in the middle will no longer be involved in the signaling path, and thus +will not generate accurate CDRs for that call. If you can, use media-only +transfers with IAX2 to avoid this problem, or turn off transfers completely +(although this can result in a media latency increase since the media packets +have to traverse the middle server(s) in the call). + +\section{CDR Variables} + +If the channel has a cdr, that cdr record has its own set of variables which +can be accessed just like channel variables. The following builtin variables +are available. + +\begin{verbatim} +${CDR(clid)} Caller ID +${CDR(src)} Source +${CDR(dst)} Destination +${CDR(dcontext)} Destination context +${CDR(channel)} Channel name +${CDR(dstchannel)} Destination channel +${CDR(lastapp)} Last app executed +${CDR(lastdata)} Last app's arguments +${CDR(start)} Time the call started. +${CDR(answer)} Time the call was answered. +${CDR(end)} Time the call ended. +${CDR(duration)} Duration of the call. +${CDR(billsec)} Duration of the call once it was answered. +${CDR(disposition)} ANSWERED, NO ANSWER, BUSY +${CDR(amaflags)} DOCUMENTATION, BILL, IGNORE etc +${CDR(accountcode)} The channel's account code. +${CDR(uniqueid)} The channel's unique id. +${CDR(userfield)} The channels uses specified field. +\end{verbatim} + +In addition, you can set your own extra variables by using Set(CDR(name)=value). +These variables can be output into a text-format CDR by using the cdr\_custom +CDR driver; see the cdr\_custom.conf.sample file in the configs directory for +an example of how to do this. |