[asterisk-users] Load balance Asterisk servers?

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:24 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Load balance Asterisk servers?
> 
> 
> Incorrect :) IAX2 most definitely does support regcontext.
> 
> Also, I think what he means is the phone specific information must be
> exactly the same from system to system or the failover won't be as
> seamless as you expect.  A lot of phones support some sort of SRV
> records, so in the event of a failure, the phones will automatically
> find the next available server.  The other option there is to 
> set up an
> HA environment so the failover is even transparent to the phones, they
> just start talking to the new IP address immediately.
> 
> Another thought, in any failover situation, if you have any sort of
> automated failover, you must make sure phones that need specific
> features fail to the same server (i.e. hinting and such) as those
> features don't work cross server.

To put things in perspective, one could consider that BLF is not a critical function, and in a failover situation, if call processing continues, but your BLF function is degraded (until the phones resubscribe), then that might be acceptable.

Doug.