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.
70 ; CHOOSING A CDR "BACKEND" (what kind of output to generate)
72 ; To choose a backend, you have to make sure either the right category is
73 ; defined in this file, or that the appropriate config file exists, and has the
74 ; proper definitions in it. If there are any problems, usually, the entry will
75 ; silently ignored, and you get no output.
77 ; Also, please note that you can generate CDR records in as many formats as you
78 ; wish. If you configure 5 different CDR formats, then each event will be logged
79 ; in 5 different places! In the example config files, all formats are commented
80 ; out except for the cdr-csv format.
82 ; Here are all the possible back ends:
84 ; csv, custom, manager, odbc, pgsql, radius, sqlite, tds
85 ; (also, mysql is available via the asterisk-addons, due to licensing
87 ; (please note, also, that other backends can be created, by creating
88 ; a new backend module in the source cdr/ directory!)
90 ; Some of the modules required to provide these backends will not build or install
91 ; unless some dependency requirements are met. Examples of this are pgsql, odbc,
92 ; etc. If you are not getting output as you would expect, the first thing to do
93 ; is to run the command "make menuselect", and check what modules are available,
94 ; by looking in the "2. Call Detail Recording" option in the main menu. If your
95 ; backend is marked with XXX, you know that the "configure" command could not find
96 ; the required libraries for that option.
98 ; To get CDRs to be logged to the plain-jane /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv
99 ; file, define the [csv] category in this file. No database necessary. The example
100 ; config files are set up to provide this kind of output by default.
102 ; To get custom csv CDR records, make sure the cdr_custom.conf file
103 ; is present, and contains the proper [mappings] section. The advantage to
104 ; using this backend, is that you can define which fields to output, and in
105 ; what order. By default, the example configs are set up to mimic the cdr-csv
106 ; output. If you don't make any changes to the mappings, you are basically generating
107 ; the same thing as cdr-csv, but expending more CPU cycles to do so!
109 ; To get manager events generated, make sure the cdr_manager.conf file exists,
110 ; and the [general] section is defined, with the single variable 'enabled = yes'.
112 ; For odbc, make sure all the proper libs are installed, that "make menuselect"
113 ; shows that the modules are available, and the cdr_odbc.conf file exists, and
114 ; has a [global] section with the proper variables defined.
116 ; For pgsql, make sure all the proper libs are installed, that "make menuselect"
117 ; shows that the modules are available, and the cdr_pgsql.conf file exists, and
118 ; has a [global] section with the proper variables defined.
120 ; For logging to radius databases, make sure all the proper libs are installed, that
121 ; "make menuselect" shows that the modules are available, and the [radius]
122 ; category is defined in this file, and in that section, make sure the 'radiuscfg'
123 ; variable is properly pointing to an existing radiusclient.conf file.
125 ; For logging to sqlite databases, make sure the 'cdr.db' file exists in the log directory,
126 ; which is usually /var/log/asterisk. Of course, the proper libraries should be available
127 ; during the 'configure' operation.
129 ; For tds logging, make sure the proper libraries are available during the 'configure'
130 ; phase, and that cdr_tds.conf exists and is properly set up with a [global] category.
132 ; Also, remember, that if you wish to log CDR info to a database, you will have to define
133 ; a specific table in that databse to make things work! See the doc directory for more details
134 ; on how to create this table in each database.
138 usegmtime=yes ; log date/time in GMT. Default is "no"
139 loguniqueid=yes ; log uniqueid. Default is "no"
140 loguserfield=yes ; log user field. Default is "no"
143 ;usegmtime=yes ; log date/time in GMT
144 ;loguniqueid=yes ; log uniqueid
145 ;loguserfield=yes ; log user field
146 ; Set this to the location of the radiusclient-ng configuration file
147 ; The default is /etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf
148 ;radiuscfg => /usr/local/etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf