Alcatel Unleashed

There are lots of useful tools available in our terminal sessions to the OXE. However we're still lacking one: an online test set that we can run from the terminal session.
Until now all we had to work with were real sets or maybe a softphone requiring direct access to the PBX (and a pricey license to boot). Because we need direct network access for those it is not possible to run them through dial-up sessions. Giving you the not so welcome prospect of having to drive over to that remote site in the dead of night to examine a problem.

So I thought it would be an interesting experiment to write some software to use as a 'terminal softphone' which I can run from anywhere as long as I have a shell on the call server.
The result of this is a very small (several kb) piece of software called 'online_set' which will allow me to dial a number and playback a G.711 aLaw test sound (1000Hz sinus) as well as pick up an incoming call and play back the same test sound.

Requirements:
1 CS (with role address set up)
1 standard IP user license

Instructions:

• Log on to the call server and upload the binary somewhere you like (/DHS3bin/mtcl for instance)
• Add a 4008 set
• Configure this set with a fake mac address (eg 00:00:00:00:00:01) and disable "Reset For Update Authorized"
• Start the online set with

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  ./online_set <role IP address CS> <fake mac address> <local IP address CS>

Once you're logged on you are able to use the following commands:
Dialing: Off-hook receiver: Release call: Quit: It is also possible to input individual characters to dial 0-9, # and *
Press enter to confirm a command, I did not implement backspace because ancient ncurses was misbehaving when combined with readline (so I had to drop readline) and I couldn't be bothered to fix that

Download here

Disclaimer:
This was written just for fun, I take no responsibility for your OXE blowing up on you. I have intentionally crippled voice functionality because this is a troubleshooting tool.
It works alright for me on release 11.2 but I have no reason to assume earlier releases won't work. I expect it will be broken on release 12, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Implementing G.711 muLaw should be no problem, drop me a line. Compressed codecs are pretty much out of the question.

thanks for this peace of cake
if it works, it will be very helpful.
i'll test it soon.

regards...

Thank you. Very interesting.
For reference you can use also a virtual ghost with xmon or Frank's dialer (which is based on xmon). For already working sets pilot2a is also an option.

I was playing around with pilot2a before, but it just didn't work the way I wanted. I didn't know about xmon actually.

Hi. Have problem downloading the file.
Is there anywhere I can download ?
Thank you
Samuel

Cool work great with 11.2.2
Thx

unfortunally it doesn't work with 12.2.
error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory