[Asterisk-Users] Multiple Servers and 1 Central Voicemail

[Josiah Bryan]

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:49 am, Luki wrote:
> > Also, what happens if for example, the user is accessing his VMB
> > on server 1 and changes his password, then travel to where server
> > 2 is and tries to access his VMB? the config on server2 would
> > still have the old one.... so you need to sync voicemail.conf on
> > all servers too ...
>
> If you use the realtime config via a DB, it should be OK. But I still
> don't think that MWI will work properly if a message is left on server
> A and user is actually registered on server B, which is NOT on the
> same network and hence does NOT share the same voice mail spool. How
> will B know there is a message left on A for the same user? Does
> realtime share this info too? And if so, how does the message get
> retrieved if B does not have access to files on server A, where the
> actual message is?

Why not just NFS mount the /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail directory from a 
central server? That way, all servers share the same spool and the MWI will 
get reflected on all servers.

-josiah

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Josiah Bryan
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