[cisco-voip] Automated testing of numbers/systems - what do you use?

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

There was a thread about Testing Complex Dial Plans a while back, which got me thinking. Well, I only recently saw a product that might help and thought I'd see if people think this would work. 

http://www.vikingelectronics.com/products/view_product.php?pid=193 

This product is made specifically for their emergency phones which responds to an initial * DTMF and then responds with DTMF codes. After calling them, they said they can engineer the device without the initial * so that it just waits for DTMF codes which it uses to gauge the success of a test call. 

I'm thinking, since most of the time, it's a system issue, not a port issue, I can set up ports on each of our systems that respond with particular DTMF codes as part of a .wav file. For example, if we want to check voice mail, I can create a call handler that responds with specific DTFMs. I can also create a voice mail box that has these DTMFs as well. 

Anyone else know of something similar that can do this? I know there are big software companies out there that have this solution, but I'd rather not spend 25 K on testing. This solution would cost us under 1K. 


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