hmm still something isnt adding up .. here is what I did
I opened notepad put these two statements in it with a carriage return at the end:
sip show channels
show channels concise
set putty to log, opened asterisk pasted the line in there so it captures both results instantaneously. What I noticed is that 'sip show channels' may show 53 calls but when I count the calls from 'show channels concise' I only see 43. I ran the cmd twice just to be sure it wasn't a fluke and both results were about the same as my conclusion mentioned earlier. Most of the lines I can see the call progress for the phone number being dialed. I do see this every so often
'SIP/SIPtrunk-08270830!default!!1!Down!AppDial!(Outgoing Line)!0000000000!!3!!(None)
SIP/SIPtrunk-082765b0!default!!1!Down!AppDial!(Outgoing Line)!0000000000!!3!!(None)' (Phone number has been trimmed on purpose)
It appears that is the call making progress from different states throughout asterisk/astgui. A quick search inside the log for '08270830' shows this to be true. What should I be on the lookout for in this log ?
Thanks for your assistance Matt