[asterisk-biz] Alternative to QueueMetrics

[Alex Balashov]

Simple answer: FastAGI.

Kind of like how ViciDIAL does it, except not badly.

Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 06:48 -0500, Alex Balashov wrote:
>> True distributed queues can only be achieved by rolling one's own. 
>> Asterisk's built-in queues do not suffice;  they are confined logically 
>> to one host.  Duplicating them is not the same as distributing.
> 
> I guess its fortunate that there are other FOSS alternatives that do
> have this ability :)
> 
> However if you dont want to use them for a distributed queue you can
> probably play games with a dbput and park (asterisk has a park app
> right?) and just use odbc or something to talk to the db.
> 
> or you can get res_js and embed spidermonkey (mozillas javascript
> engine) into asterisk and use that to do the grunt work.  It has been my
> experience that res_js performs better than the dialplan (comparison was
> a dialplan that did basically the same as the JS script, the JS script
> had better error checking though - the JS thing was a 1 line dialplan
> putting all calls into the JS script).  I got more calls per second and
> a higher total number of calls on the box when using res_js.  
> 
> You will have to port res_js forward since it was last done for 1.2 and
> not upgraded since.  Of course if you use this and distribute a system
> you have to refer to the trademark license since this is a modification
> of the software and all that.
> http://www.digium.com/en/company/view-policy.php?id=Trademark-Policy
> 
> see the section "Users Permitted Under This Policy" section e (hey at
> least you dont have to disown asterisk completely anymore).
> 
> You can get res_js from http://www.freeswitch.org/node/50 along with
> other asterisk modules.
> 
> 
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