[asterisk-ha-clustering] Load sharing between two asterisk servers

[Johansson Olle E]

11 jan 2008 kl. 13.06 skrev Allan Cassaro:

>> On Jan 9, 2008 3:12 PM, Allan Cassaro <allan.cassaro at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> This is OK, but the Pickup() application works with DUNDi too!? If I
>>> do a call pickup, asterisk/dundi will lookup on every node for  
>>> ringing
>>> extensions?
>>> In some tests this doesn't work for me. The Pickup() application  
>>> only
>>> look localy for ringing (and hint) extensions...
>>> You make tests with this scenario? You can pickup calls on remote  
>>> nodes?!
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 5:50 PM, Julian J. M. <julianjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think you can get remote hints working. What should happen
>> when one extension is registered on several servers (as there is
>> nothing forbiding that)?
>>
>> And Pickup, even if it could work accross servers, isn't that usefull
>> without hints.
>>
>> Julian J. M.
>
> Yes, it's possible to make one extension to register on several
> servers... What happen with this? Well, I think it's not a (really)
> problem, the phone will ring and the users can talk as usual.
> I wrote some months ago a little script in python to make "remote
> hints" (BLF) possible. So, if the extension on any node is
> ring/ringing/busy/idle, the state of this extension is updated on
> every node. So, with this I can implement the "presence" on GXP2000 or
> Snom phones.
> So, with this script, the Pickup accross servers is very usefull, and
> necessary. Necessary because I can't know where users are
> registered...
>
> Imagine this:
>
> "User A" is registered on "Server A"
> "User B" is registered on "Server B"
> The "User A" have BLF configured to get presence of "User B" and  
> vice-versa.
>
> So, when phone "B" is ringing, the "User A" know that, but can't
> pickup the call This is my problem...

Yes, that's a problem with the patches that floats around using the  
devstate
function. There's no way to trace the server that actually owns the  
state and
can handle call pickup...

/O