[asterisk-commits] russell: branch russell/events r103753 - /team/russell/events/doc/

[SVN commits to the Asterisk project]

Author: russell
Date: Sun Feb 17 21:33:16 2008
New Revision: 103753

URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&rev=103753
Log:
Add a note about setting the entity ID for distributed events to work

Modified:
    team/russell/events/doc/distributed_devstate.txt

Modified: team/russell/events/doc/distributed_devstate.txt
URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/team/russell/events/doc/distributed_devstate.txt?view=diff&rev=103753&r1=103752&r2=103753
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--- team/russell/events/doc/distributed_devstate.txt (original)
+++ team/russell/events/doc/distributed_devstate.txt Sun Feb 17 21:33:16 2008
@@ -151,6 +151,23 @@
 --- Configuring Asterisk
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+First, ensure that you have a unique "entity ID" set for each server.
+
+*CLI> core show settings
+   ...
+   Entity ID:                   01:23:45:67:89:ab
+
+The code will attempt to generate a unique entity ID for you by reading
+MAC addresses off of a network interface.  However, you can also set it
+manually in the [options] section of asterisk.conf.
+
+$ sudo ${EDITOR:-vim} /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
+
+[options]
+...
+entity_id=01:23:45:67:89:ab
+
+
 Edit the Asterisk ais.conf to enable distributed events.  For example, if you
 would like to enable distributed device state, you should add the following
 section to the file: