[asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

[Al Baker]

Quote "

We had a master source location.with a master image
         We cloned the hard drive with linux  dd copy of master image"

Did the dd to clone it actually work on RAID devices ????


Mike Trest - On Travel wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>>     
>>>> I'd be interested in sections like "Rolling out a new server" or "How we
>>>> maintain all the little configuration files without losing our sanity."
>>>>         
>
> Hi,
>
> I will contribute my 2-cents on how I maintained consistency on  a 
> large application
> with 64 +  Asterisks that all had to have the same config and links back to
> a central DB.
>
> Whenever we needed a new machine, we just
>
>          We had a master source location.with a master image
>          We cloned the hard drive with linux  dd copy of master image
>          boot the new machine with this disk
>          assign appropriate IP address
>          perform some sanity checks prior to shipping
>          Send either disk or full machine to remote COLO for physical install.
>
> After the machine came on line, it would have enough configuration to
> join the other members of the farm of asterisks.
>
> For intermediate updates, we used SSL-DSA keys between the master
> master image machine and each of the 64+ remotes.  We would wrote
> our own script and gave it a list of each machine on which to perform
> the particular steps.  When it was launched, we just went out to lunch
> or home at night while the remotes were updated.
>
> This application had as many as 6,000 simultaneous call running and
> we wrote the scripts such that each remote were placed in a
> "take no calls" status by the script so we did not kill any active traffic.
>
> We found that no "canned package" was useful to do this because each
> maintenance cycle was addressing a different part of the overall configuration
> and had slightly different commands that were needed.
>
> Any good script writer can do the same for what you described.
>
> Regards,  ..mike..
>
>
>
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