Asterisk 16 Support (BETA)

[mcargile]

Just finished our initial testing of Asterisk 16 support and everything is working as far as I can tell. Thankfully Digium did not make any major changes to the Asterisk Manager Events that Vicidial uses so everything pretty much just worked. No configuration files need to be changed since Asterisk 13. It has not been tested on a production system as of yet, but it has placed tens of millions of calls on my dev system without a crash. You can download a fully patched version of the Asterisk source code here:

http://download.vicidial.com/beta-apps/ ... ici.tar.gz

Please keep in mind that support is still in beta. Use this at your own risk and do not cry to us if it crashes. If you are not sure how to compile and install Asterisk from scratch for use with Vicidial this is not something I recommend messing with. Also keep in mind that App MeetMe is required by Vicidial but is not compiled by default so you will need to enable that.

One completely optional feature I did add was IAX and SIP peer event logging. This logs when SIP and IAX peers Register, Unregister, Go Reachable, Go Unreachable, Go Lagged, Disconnect due to lack of RTP, and Experience a Critical Timeout to the vicidial_peer_event_log. This should allow us in the future to notify agents and managers when peers are having connection issues. To activate this you need to be running an SVN version from 2021-04-08 (Matt is working on the code commit at the time of me writing this). And add this to the /etc/asterisk/manager.conf file in the [listencron] section:

; Optional
eventfilter=Event: PeerStatus
eventfilter=Event: SIPRTPDisconnect
eventfilter=Event: PeerRegistered
eventfilter=Event: SIPCriticalTimeout

Matt may add this to the config when he commits the code. I am going to be adding a patch for Asterisk 13 to enable this feature in that version as well.

[carpenox]

thank you sir, im actually testing 16 now but via the vicidial opensuse repo which is the 16.16.2 version. Will this version work as well? I seem to be having some issues with dahdi(meetme)

-- Called 55558600052@default
[Apr 7 14:30:02] WARNING[9418][C-00000006]: pbx.c:2927 pbx_extension_helper: No application 'MeetMeAdmin' for extension (default, 55558600052, 1)
[Apr 7 14:30:02] == Spawn extension (default, 55558600052, 1) exited non-zero on 'Local/55558600052@default-00000002;2'
[Apr 7 14:30:02] WARNING[9418][C-00000006]: pbx.c:2927 pbx_extension_helper: No application 'AGI' for extension (default,

[mcargile]

I have not tested that package yet. Kumba was setting up an initial build of that package for me to test once the source code release was done. I am not sure if it even compiles app_meetme.so yet.

One thing I did forget to mention is that you will need to enable the res_speech.so module in modules.conf to get the res_agi.so module to load. Not sure why res_agi.so depends on that now but that would explain the last error you were getting.

[carpenox]

ok thank you

[carpenox]

here is an install instructions to do thw switch for anyone else interested: https://cyburityllc.com/?p=1913

I hope this helps

-Nox

[GenXOutsourcing]

Ok, got this working on Centos7 scratch install.

Question, when running the install.pl script, we need to put 16.X, 16.17.0-vici, or leave at 13.X?

Also in the server settings, leave at 13 or change to 16.17.0-vici?

[carpenox]

I put the actual version in both places. 16.17.0-vici

[okli]

Is Sangoma CPA still supported in Asterisk 13 and 16?
Can't see any patches related to it applied or available, or are these patches no longer required?

[mflorell]

Sangoma CPA/Lyra/ParaXip went end-of-life in 2017 and is no longer sold or supported by Sangoma. As such, we have not spent time to add it's functionality to newer versions of Asterisk.