[asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

[Douglas Garstang]

Right, except now I have to go write a multi-threaded, redundant FastAGI server in python (euww, hate java). That replaces the effort of doing it in the dial-plan with the effort required for a more complex application + the effort required to make it redundant. Asterisk 1.2 also does not recover from a failure to connect to a FastAGI server. When it fails to connect, the current call just bombs out. No recovery possible.

Doug.


----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Totaro <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com>
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 10:02:37 AM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Building a Complex IVR

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Douglas Garstang <dougmig33 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm about to build a complex IVR with Asterisk.
>
> Having done it a few times with the dial plan, I know it's going to be
> pretty ugly. What are my other options? I guess I could do it in
> AGI/FastAGI. What about VxML (about which I know almost nothing...)?
>
> Using Asterisk 1.2
>
> Thanks,
> Doug.
>

FastAGI is a good bet.  You can patch it to jump N+101 so you can have
failover in case the box hosting the AGI is unreachable, it will jump,
instead of the default of just failing and halting.

It also offloads the processing to a different box.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

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