Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

agents.conf

This file allows you to create and manage agents for your call center. If you are using the Queue() application, you may want to configure agents for the queue. The agents.conf file is used to configure the AGENT channel driver.

The [general] section in agents.conf currently contains only one parameter. The persistentagents=yes parameter tells Asterisk to save the status of agents who use the callback feature of queues in the local Asterisk database. A logged-in remote agent will then remain logged in across a reboot (unless removed from the database through some other means).

The following parameters, which are specified in the [agents] section, are used to define agents and the way the system interacts with them. The settings apply to all agents, unless otherwise specified in the individual agent definitions:

ackcall

Accepts the arguments yes and no. If set to yes, requires a callback agent to acknowledge login by pressing the # key after logging in. This works in conjunction with the AgentCallbackLogin() application.

autologoff

Accepts an argument (in seconds) defining how long an agent channel should ring for before the agent is deemed unavailable and logged off.

group

Defines the groups to which an agent belongs, specified with integers. Specify that an agent belongs to multiple groups by separating the integers with commas.

musiconhold => class

Accepts a Music on Hold class as its argument. This setting applies to all agents.

updatecdr

Accepts the arguments yes and no. Used ...