diff --git a/plugins/asterisk/asterisk_channels b/plugins/asterisk/asterisk_channels
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+#!/usr/bin/php
+<?
+
+// Munin plugin
+// Gets number of active channels
+// By Eugene Varnavsky
+// June 2012
+// Version 1.0
+//
+// LGPL License
+
+if (isset($argv[1]) && $argv[1] == "autoconf") {
+        echo "yes\n";
+        exit(0);
+}
+if (isset($argv[1]) && $argv[1] == "config") {
+        echo "graph_title Asterisk Channels\n";
+        echo "graph_args --base 1000 -l 0\n";
+        echo "graph_vlabel Channels\n";
+        echo "graph_category asterisk\n";
+        echo "channels.label Channels\n";
+        exit (0);
+}
+
+$out = `asterisk -x "core show channels"`;
+preg_match('/(\d{1,4}) active channels/i', $out, $channels);
+echo "channels.value $channels[1]\n";
+?>