[asterisk-dev] The New CDR system

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:25 -0700, Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > Once I have the ability to share events over IAX2, this would open up some 
> > really cool possibilities.  For example, you could have a cluster of 10 
> > Asterisk servers handling calls and generating CDR events.  Then, you could 
> > have a master CDR server that has subscribed to these events from each 
> > server, collects all of them, and logs them into the same place.
> 
> We already do this with MySQL. Funneling the CDR's through IAX sounds 
> interesting, but then we would have to run an instance of Asterisk 
> (possibly on our database server) just for the purpose of taking the CDRS 
> out of the IAX stream and then communicating with our database.
> 
> What would the advantage be to send the CDRs over IAX?

Security. Funneling CDRs over IAX to a asterisk instance that had no
outside connectivity that was billable would only expose yourself to
maybe someone hacking their way into leaving bogus CDR records. 

I don't know if I would want a mysql or other internet enabled DB to be
publicly facing. I could let a asterisk instance capture the CDR events
and drop them to whatever backend is necessary without exposing the
backend.

Management, bringing the CDRs back to a single asterisk box would let
you manage them all from a single point. Next step would be to provide a
way for failover and/or queueing of these events on the off chance the
other side is down.

I'm sure there are more, but these are some ideas I came up with
quickly.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>