diff --git a/plugins/asterisk/asterisk_channels b/plugins/asterisk/asterisk_channels
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+#! /bin/sh
+# Munin plugin
+# Gets number of active channels
+# By Eugene Varnavsky
+#  Converted to /bin/sh by Steve Schnepp
+# June 2012
+# Version 1.0
+#
+# LGPL License
+
+if [ $1 = "autoconf" ]; then
+        echo "yes"
+        exit 0
+fi
+
+if [ $1 = "config" ]; then
+        echo "graph_title Asterisk Channels"
+        echo "graph_args --base 1000 -l 0"
+        echo "graph_vlabel Channels"
+        echo "graph_category asterisk"
+        echo "channels.label Channels"
+        exit 0
+fi
+
+asterisk -x "core show channels" | awk '/active channels/ { print "channels.value " $1 }'
+exit 0