[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER

[Douglas Garstang]

Don't quite follow. If the phones have a backup proxy configured, wouldn't that mean they would only register with that backup proxy if the primary was unavailable? In that case, they'd only be registered with a single proxy, not two.

We're using polycom phones... they support DNS SRV and seem to work (mostly) well. Phones haven't seemed to have been the issue. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:33 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
> 
> 
> Well, most phones have a backup proxy setting, so we've got 
> all our phones 
> configured to register with both servers using the backup 
> proxy, with an 
> outbound proxy set up so the phones can call out from any 
> server that's 
> available.  We just got the outbound proxy stuff working, so we can 
> literally walk in the server room and unplug a call server 
> and only lose 
> calls that are in progress, and nobody would know the 
> difference.  We just 
> got some polycoms in, I'm kinda excited to see how well they 
> handle the 
> redundancy.  The way we have it set up, we can drop a whole 
> new server 
> into the cluster, change like 3 lines of dialplan code, and 
> add the server 
> to the proxy list and voila, another server handling more call load :)
> 
> Aaron
> 
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> 
> > Here's the $64,000 question... how are you handling 
> redundant registrations?
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
> >> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:32 AM
> >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
> >>
> >>
> >> We've actually got two servers handling all the call volume,
> >> and when one
> >> server goes down, the other one fields all phone calls.
> >> We're using a
> >> combination of dialplan magic and dns to make it work.  As
> >> long as your
> >> phones can handle multiple ip's for host records and you've got the
> >> dialplan set up right, HA is fairly easy to get working right.
> >>
> >> Aaron
> >>
> >> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Bryan Mahin wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, I should say... Sporadically I can register to the 
> virtual ip.
> >>> Other times I can't.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ________________________________
> >>>
> >>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On 
> Behalf Of Bryan
> >>> Mahin
> >>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:56 PM
> >>> To: Asterisk-Users
> >>> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hello all, I first want to thank everyone for all your
> >> contributions.
> >>> I've building an asterisk system for a month or so now and without
> >>> everyone in the online asterisk community I wouldn't have
> >> made it this
> >>> far yet. Thanks! ...ok, mushiness out of the way.. :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I am looking for a failover and ultimately a load 
> balancing asterisk
> >>> solution. I've done a good bit of research and I haven't
> >> really found
> >>> any information for implementing an Asterisk only failover or load
> >>> balancing solution. Everyone seems to use SER along with 
> asterisk to
> >>> accomplish this goal. SER with asterisk may be in my
> >> future, but for now
> >>> I need to get this system up and running.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I've setup heartbeat (ultramonkey), and are able to take my
> >> primary box
> >>> offline and have the second machine take over, but it isn't
> >> working in
> >>> regards to asterisk. I can't register phones to the virtual
> >> ip. I can
> >>> ssh into the virtual ip but my soft phones wont register. 
> I get the
> >>> following error. Is this normal?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have any experience with this sort of setup
> >> without the use
> >>> of SER?
> >>>
> >>> Bryan Mahin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >> --
> >> Aaron Daniel
> >> Computer Systems Technician
> >> Sam Houston State University
> >> amdtech at shsu.edu
> >> (936) 294-4198
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> Aaron Daniel
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