[Asterisk-Users] Conferencing with multiple servers

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick [mailto:asterisk-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Conferencing with multiple servers
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:22 +0100, Wildheart wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >    I am trying to join 2 asterisk servers together using a 
> sip channel.
> > This is so, if a user joins a conference on box A and another user
> > joins a conference on box B, providing they are in the same 
> conference
> > room, the two conferences are joined via the sip channel. 
> We only want
> > to join the conferences together if they have users in them and we
> > don't want to point all the conferences to one server as we 
> would like
> > to try to balance the load a bit.

This is a general problem with the 'enterprise grade' aspects of Asterisk. As far as I know, there is no way to distribute applications (eg: Queue, Meetme etc) between multiple Asterisk systems. You really need to run the applications that will serve a common set of phones on the same Asterisk system, and then fail over to a secondary if necessary.

Doug.