[asterisk-users] Voicemail, SQL & ODBC

[Noah Miller]

Hi Norbert -

> >> I want to store all of my voicemail stuff in a database so that I can
> >> give users web access to it, but I don't want to run web services on my
> >> * server itself.  If it is all in a DB, I can have a web box and a
> >> separate SQL box and none of it should affect *.
> >
> > Yes, you can do this.  There are other ways to do this without using
> > database storage for voicemail (e.g. you could use normal file-based
> > storage for voicemail and have the webserver connect to the vm storage
> > on the * server via nfs).
>
> In my case, that's not possible. Because the box asterisk runs on has
> very limited memory an no harddisk.
> I don't know for Peder, but for me the only way seems to be to install ODBC.

Just a thought: You could go the other way - share a volume on a
separate webserver, and have the asterisk box connect to the webserver
via NFS as a client, and store the voicemail on the NFS share.  While
I don't have any exact numbers, it seems like that would be less
overhead (and hassle) than using ODBC/mysql.


- Noah