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Thirdlane FreeMetrics

Overview
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Thirdlane FreeMetrics is a free Splunk application that produces charts and reports from Call Detail and Queue Log records generated by Asterisk based PBXs, including Thirdlane PBX, Thirdlane Multi Tenant PBX and Thirdlane Call Center.
Every call center manager is responsible for tracking and improving a variety of call center metrics and requires advanced and easy to use tools for constant evaluation of agent and overall call center performance. Thirdlane FreeMetrics software lets call center managers to track and analyze call center performance metrics and key performance indicators with the precision required for making better informed management decisions.

Introduction

Welcome to Thirdlane FreeMetrics. Thirdlane FreeMetrics is a Splunk
app for analyzing logs produced by Asterisk based solutions and
provides PBX and Call Center administrators with a set of tools to get a
comprehensive accurate picture of PBX usage or Call Center performance.

Support

This app is maintained by Third Lane Technologies. LLC. For setup help
or any questions please post them on answers.splunk.com and tag them
with ThirdlaneFreeMetrics (case sensitive).

Dependencies

If your Asterisk CDR or Queue Log records are stored in a database, this
app requires Splunk DB Connect (http://apps.splunk.com/app/958/) app
from Splunkbase. You do not need to install Splunk DB Connect if both
your CDR and Queue Log data is stored in text files.

Installing

After downloading Thirdlane FreeMetrics application from Thirdlane
website, go to Manage Apps in apps menu, and select Install app from
file. After installation completes, you will get a prompt requesting
system restart. Once Splunk is restarted Thirdlane FreeMetrics will be
available in the apps menu.

Setup

In order to use Thirdlane FreeMetrics you have to configure source types
indicating whether you will be working with data stored in database or
text files. You can do this using Thirdlane FreeMetrics setup screen,
where you will be able to specify source type for Asterisk CDR, and
Asterisk Queue Log.

Note that you can always change the source type later using settings
button in navigation menu of Thirdlane FreeMetrics.

Getting data in

Thirdlane FreeMetrics recognizes four types of data sources:

  • asterisk_cdr_text - use this when working with CDR data stored in
    text files

  • asterisk_cdr_db - use this when working with CDR data stored in
    database

  • asterisk_queue_log_text - use this when working with Queue Log
    data stored in text files

  • asterisk_queue_log_db - use this when working with Queue Log data
    stored in database

Asterisk Queue_Log in text file

To start working with Queue Log stored in text file you need to:

  1. Create data input in Files & Directories. You should specify
    asterisk_queue_log_text as a source type and in Index section
    select Set the destination index as thirdlane.

  2. In Thirdlane FreeMetrics app settings select queue_log source type
    as Text.

Thirdlane FreeMetrics expects the following order of fields in the Queue
Log and will extract the following fields:

  • time_unix

  • callid

  • queuename

  • agent

  • event

  • data

  • data1

  • data2

  • data3

  • data4

  • data5

Asterisk Queue Log in database

To start working with database based Queue Log you need to:

  1. Install Splunk DB Connect.

  2. In Splunk DB Connect create database connection to your database.

  3. In Splunk DB Connect create Database Input. In it specify
    Sourcetype as asterisk_queue_log_db, and Splunk Index as
    thirdlane

  4. In Thirdlane FreeMetrics app settings select queue_log source type
    as Database.

Thirdlane FreeMetrics expects following field names in database table
queue_log:

  • time_unix

  • callid

  • queuename

  • agent

  • event

  • data

  • data1

  • data2

  • data3

  • data4

  • data5

If your database schema is different from the above, you have two
options:

  • Create custom view for your existing table based on the requirements
    as per above (recommended).

  • Specify an SQL query when creating database input.

Asterisk CDR in text file

To start working with text based CDR you need to:

  1. Create data input in Files & Directories. As source type specify
    asterisk_cdr_text and in Index section select Set the
    destination index as thirdlane.

  2. In Thirdlane FreeMetrics app settings select CDR source type as
    Text.

Thirdlane FreeMetrics expects the following order and will extract the
following fields from text based CDR:

  • accountcode

  • src

  • dst

  • dcontext

  • clid

  • channel

  • dstchannel

  • lastapp

  • lastdata

  • start

  • answer

  • end

  • duration

  • billsec

  • disposition

  • amaflags

  • uniqueid

  • userfield

Asterisk CDR in database

To start working with database based CDR you need to:

  1. Install Splunk DB Connect.

  2. In Splunk DB Connect create database connection to your database.

  3. In Splunk DB Connect create Database Input. In it specify
    Sourcetype as asterisk_cdr_db, and Splunk Index as
    thirdlane

  4. In Thirdlane FreeMetrics app settings select CDR source type as
    Database.

Thirdlane FreeMetrics expects following field names in database table
cdr:

  • accountcode

  • src

  • dst

  • dcontext

  • clid

  • channel

  • dstchannel

  • lastapp

  • lastdata

  • start

  • answer

  • end

  • duration

  • billsec

  • disposition

  • amaflags

  • uniqueid

  • userfield

If your database schema is different from the above, you have two
options:

  • Create custom view for your existing table based on the requirements
    as per above (recommended).

  • Specify an SQL query when creating database input

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