[Asterisk-Users] MWI for SER and Asterisk - ast_data vs "realtime"

[Steve Blair]

Cameron Beattie wrote:

> Hi Steve
>
> Asterisk realtime Architecture (ARA or realtime) is a way of storing 
> all configs in a database rather than flatfiles. ast_data is another. 
> There's more on the wiki if you're interested.
>
Oh I see. I would like to use MySQL in the near future but as I said our 
implementation
is small right now.

> With your setup, how does Asterisk know where to send the MWI 
> notification? Do you have duplicate settings i.e. the user details are 
> stored both in SER and Asterisk? That's what I want to avoid.

Yes we have duplicate settings. I'll need to begin addressing the use of 
MySQL with
Asterisk in about one week from now. If I discover anything that might 
be helpful
I'll let you know.

>
> Regards
>
> Cameron
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Blair" <blairs at isc.upenn.edu>
> To: "Cameron Beattie" <ext_news at appsfarm.com>; "Asterisk Users Mailing 
> List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] MWI for SER and Asterisk - ast_data vs 
> "realtime"
>
>
>>
>> I'm not familiar with the use of the word "realtime" in this context.
>> What do you mean? I have been using vmnotify to toggle MWI
>> on 79x0 phones that are registered to SER and use Asterisk for
>> voicemail and it works great. Admittedly we have a small installation
>> (about 75 users) but so far this approach works reliably.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cameron Beattie wrote:
>>
>>> Bug 002980 contains a patch that delivers MWI from Asterisk to SIP 
>>> clients registered with SER. It requires ast_data which doesn't 
>>> patch the current CVS HEAD. Since I need MWI and I want Asterisk and 
>>> SER to store data in a shared database I could:
>>> - use an old version of Asterisk and install ast_data. The patch 
>>> author runs a large-scale clustered SER/Asterisk environment and 
>>> believes ast_data to be superior to "realtime". However "realtime" 
>>> may now have developed to the point that these objections are no 
>>> longer relevant. Specific problems still seem to be SIP clients 
>>> behind NAT and voicemail notifications (both very important to me)
>>> - use realtime and write something that gives me the functionality 
>>> required and hope that the NAT and voicemail issues get fixed soon. 
>>> Apart from it being a pain to write this I also have not heard of 
>>> anyone using SER + Asterisk "realtime" in a large-scale production 
>>> environment. If anyone has had any such successes it would be good 
>>> to know about them.
>>>  I would appreciate thoughts on these (or any other) alternatives.
>>>  Regards
>>>  Cameron
>>>
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