[asterisk-users] asterisk manager interface stability

[Jon Pounder]

Quoting Bryan Laird <negativeduck at gmail.com>:

> why not do it via an snmp interface?
>
> If you spend the time building an solid snmp base you would open up
> for an easier world of custom gui's as well as possibly some cleaner
> ties into an nms infrastructure.

you have my vote on that implementation method.

snmp really is "simple", but it seems to be a neglected protocol that  
has been around for a long time.


>
>
> On May 16, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Matt Florell wrote:
>
>> The issue has more to do with the sheer amount of data passed to    
>> the client from within the Asterisk application when you have   
>> 50-100 + clients connected to the AMI on full output mode. Running   
>> a  system with FreePBX/Trixbox especially generates vast amounts of  
>>   output that has to be generated on every AMI connection for every  
>>   client. This is not trivial and can result in lockups very  
>> easily,   although this has gotten much better since the early 1.0  
>> versions.
>>
>> The new Asterisk Manager web API in 1.4 is a good step where    
>> sending of Actions does not require an actual Telnet conneciton to   
>>  the AMI, but I think to be able to handle larger numbers of    
>> concurrent connections that a separate send-only and a separate    
>> receive-only type of interface be built where Asterisk would just    
>> output all AMI data to a single server-like application that would   
>>  then broadcast it to all connected clients. This would remove the   
>>  burden of so many connections going directly into Asterisk and    
>> would allow for much larger scaling of AMI-type applications that    
>> require real-time output of AMI events.
>>
>> As for how to go about doing this, I can't help you there. I did    
>> build a very specialized version of something like this 4 years ago  
>>   for the astGUIclient project called the Asterisk Central Queue    
>> System(ACQS) It is based on 1.0 Asterisk but it still works with    
>> 1.2 and 1.4. It is limited in what it does, but it does scale much   
>>  better than using direct AMI connections.
>> http://astguiclient.sourceforge.net/acqs.html
>>
>> MATT---
>>
>>
>> On 5/16/07, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:
>> If it's not stable what needs to be done to improve this? What are   
>>  the issues? What are the alternatives (eg is Adhearsion an    
>> alternative here)
>>
>>
>> I am about to start looking into a project that requires every user  
>>   to have AMI access so looking to fund development in this space.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dean Collins
>> Cognation Pty Ltd
>> dean at cognation.net
>> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-   
>> users-bounces at lists.digium.com ] On Behalf Of Damon Estep
>> Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 7:32 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk manager interface stability
>>
>>
>> There are many past posts stating that AMI is not stable when    
>> multiple client computers are allowed to connect, particularly when  
>>   connections are dropped.
>>
>>
>> Has much progress been made on this? Is it more stable now than in   
>>  the past?
>>
>>
>> As of what versions were these issues improved?
>>
>>
>> Is it feasible to connect a large number of windows computers    
>> directly to AMI for the purpose of initiating calls from software?
>>
>>
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Jon Pounder

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