[asterisk-users] Running Multiple Instances of Asterisk

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Check the archives.  This has been covered multiple times.

Rick Smith wrote:
> you didn't listen.  SIP only.   Anyone can understand that multiple
> instances on the same machine can't touch the same hardware.
> 
> I can see how this would be very easy - dedicate an IP to an instance,
> and it'll play nice.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eric
> "ManxPower" Wieling
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:24 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Running Multiple Instances of Asterisk
> 
> Best of luck getting multiple instances of Asterisk to play nice when
> accessing Zap channels.
> 
> 
> James Texter wrote:
>> Doug,
>>     I actually see this as a pretty logical way to solve the problem.
>> Please keep us posted if you have any luck sorting out running multiple
>> instances, or mail me off-list if no one else is interested.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> On 9/25/06 1:52 PM, "Douglas Garstang" <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Brian Rogan [mailto:brogan at syderial.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:40 PM
>>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Running Multiple Instances of Asterisk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Doug,
>>>>
>>>> Why do you want to do this to begin with?  I think the best
>>>> solution is
>>> Because we are trying to build a hosted IPT solution, not an enterprise
>>> solution.
>>>
>>>> to use the realtime stuff, and build your own management tools, which
>>>> would allow you to do this (you could drastically cut the complexity
>>>> with the right tools).  Even if you could run them together, how
>>>> would you put everything on the appropriate ports?  How would you deal
>>>> with multiple instances accessing hardware?
>>> Realtime is resource intensive, requiring many queries to perform simple
>>> lookups. We can easily create multiple virtual IP address, and since each
>>> virtual IP address can bind to port 5060, each phone can register with
>>> domain.com:5060 without a problem. We don't need multiple instances to
> access
>>> hardware as this is a SIP only solution. Our PSTN access is via external
>>> Audiocodes gateways, not via Digium T1 cards.
>>>
>>> The dial plan was not able to handle the complexity we needed (for
> example the
>>> MySQL() application command could not do nested queries), and so right
> now, we
>>> have a 2000 line python script and several very complex MySQL stored
>>> procedures in order to fulfull our requirements.
>>>
>>>> I'm not convinced that maintaining the config files, binaries
>>>> and other
>>>> components of multiple asterisk's is easier than just building better
>>>> tools to configure one.
>>> I am. I look at our configuration which is currently for one customer,
> and
>>> there's already several dozen contexts in order to cover a lot of
> complexity.
>>> Multiply that by a couple of hundred, and I won't want to be
> administering it!
>>>> You could also try User-Mode-Linux or something like that.
>>> I was going to give v-servers a try. There's a guide at:
>>> http://www.telephreak.org/papers/vpa/
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