cdr

CDR is Call Detail Record, which provides logging services via a variety of pluggable backend modules. Detailed call information can be recorded to databases, files, etc. Useful for billing, fraud prevention, compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley aka The Enron Act, QOS evaluations, and more.

cdr.conf

[general]

Global settings applied to the CDR engine.

• debug - Enable/disable verbose CDR debugging.
• enable - Enable/disable CDR logging.
• channeldefaultenabled - Whether CDR is enabled on a channel by default
• ignorestatechanges - Whether CDR is updated or forked by bridging changes.
• ignoredialchanges - Whether CDR is updated or forked by dial updates.
• unanswered - Log calls that are never answered and don't set an outgoing party.
• congestion - Log congested calls.
• endbeforehexten - Don't produce CDRs while executing hangup logic
• initiatedseconds - Count microseconds for billsec purposes

• batch - Submit CDRs to the backends for processing in batches

  Warning

  Use of batch mode may result in data loss after unsafe asterisk termination, i.e., software crash, power failure, kill -9, etc.

• size - The maximum number of CDRs to accumulate before triggering a batch

• time - The maximum time to accumulate CDRs before triggering a batch

  Note

  Time is expressed in seconds.

• scheduleronly - Post batched CDRs on their own thread instead of the scheduler

• safeshutdown - Block shutdown of Asterisk until CDRs are submitted
• canceldispositionenabled - Whether to enable CANCEL disposition in CDR