[asterisk-users] Distributed System

[Philipp Kempgen]

Peder @ NetworkOblivion wrote:

> The question I always have when someone mentions distributing the load 
> across multiple machines is "how do you handle contexts for phones on 
> different machines?"  I want all of my phones to dial into 
> [companyA-phones].  I have to define it in two different places (or more 
> depending on the number of boxes).
> 
> Also, say I have a single company and I want a single auto attendant 
> with dial by name?  If users go to two different boxes, then voicemail 
> "dial by name" will break because voicemail won't check both boxes for 
> the name.  Also, what about dialing a peer.  Say all of my phones are 
> 2xx.  If I am 201 and I dial 202, how is my dialplan setup so that it 
> knows that 202 is on box 2, versus box 1 where I am registered?
> 
> I think having several boxes works fine if you are doing "home user" 
> type stuff where you don't have lots of users within one context, but if 
> you have offices with several people, I just see lots of potential 
> issues.  I could be wrong, but I've never been able to figure out a way 
> around it.

Realtime + MySQL does it. That needs some extra work but
it's possible.

Regards,
  Philipp Kempgen

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