[asterisk-users] Distributed System

[Steve Totaro]

Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> ram wrote:
>
>   
>> any success stories of the setup
>>
>> kindly post your config and information
>>     
>
> That would be really difficult to understand because this is all
> integrated in a bigger project.
>
> Basically we use MySQL to replicate from a central database to
> many Asterisk "nodes". (Or you could use MySQL Cluster.) All
> Asterisk servers read the sip friends, queues, etc. from their
> local MySQL database via Realtime. The users are distributed
> across the nodes. A bunch of custom scripts generate parts of
> the dialplan or are called via AGI in order to tell it where
> to route calls etc.
>
> We constantly check if all the Asterisk nodes respond to SIP
> packets, and should one of them ever fail to do so repeatedly
> a standby server takes it's place. This is done in less than
> 10 seconds without any manual interaction.
>
> The configuration is mainly done via command line tools to be
> easily scriptable. Additionally every user has access to a web
> interface where they can change their callforwarding rules, look
> at phonebooks, dialed numbers, missed calls, access voicemail,
> program their phone's keys, monitor queue status and so on ...
>
> The system provides all the phones with configuration (mass
> deployment), i.e. SIP settings, programmable keys, ringtones, ...
> All users are free to log in/out on their handsets or login at a
> different handset and have their private phonebook etc. available
> there (largely depends on the model).
>
> We are probably going to release our software in about 3 months
> or so (can't promise that, don't nail me down to it) under the
> GNU GPL.
>
> Regards,
>   Philipp Kempgen
>
>   
Sweet.  I sure hope that happens.  Sounds like everything that one could 
possibly want in an enterprise PBX.

Thanks,
Steve