[asterisk-users] Clustering Meetme over multiple boxes?

[Tony Mountifield]

Hi Matt, thanks for your reply.

In article <61575c810803040813m7830b4bbj3cbd8939d9975711 at mail.gmail.com>,
Matt Florell <astmattf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have done this using IAX trunks between Asterisk servers to connect
> a PRI line on server A with a meetme room on server B. We have had
> hundreds of participants in meetme rooms across a dozen Asterisk
> servers using this method.
> 
> Not knowing your setup I'm not sure if this would work easily for you,
> but this is a somewhat-easy, scalable method for expanding meetme
> capacity.

Is it correct to understand that in your setup, a given conference only
ever exists on a single server (presumably the one used by the first
caller), and that calls arriving on a different server are proxied
individually to whichever server is hosting the requested conference?

I can see that this would be quite easy, and would work well for lots
of smallish conferences, but might be a bit heavy for a system running
a small number of huge conferences. In the latter case, I want to look
at having a local conference on each box and bridging the conferences
together. This is the bit that gets complicated for making conf-wide
decisions :-)

Cheers
Tony

> MATT---
> 
> On 3/4/08, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> > Has anyone here done any work on clustering Meetme conferences over
> >  multiple Asterisk boxes? The scenario I am thinking of is where there are
> >  two or more boxes connected to a set of PRIs that all answer to the same
> >  PSTN number, and where it's not possible to know in advance on which box
> >  a call would arrive. So it would be possible to have some calls on one
> >  box and some on another, that should all be conferenced together, by
> >  somehow linking matching Meetme conferences on both/all boxes.
> >
> >  Particular complications I can envisage are the handling of marked users
> >  (A, w and x options), call recording (r option), and MeetmeAdmin
> >  operations such as mute all and unmute all.
> >
> >  Cheers
> >  Tony
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