[asterisk-users] Asterisk Database Handling

Alex Balashov abalashov at evaristesys.com
Thu May 22 12:00:10 CDT 2008


A program like netcat?

Matthew J. Roth wrote:
> Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>> Not at all, just offering a workaround.  If your master.csv is
>>> complete and correct then it makes sense to use that data unless
>>> someone can identify your problem and offer a fix.
>> Unfortunately, not really feesible. I didn't design the system but we 
>> are using CDR's not only for billing purposes, but also to keep state 
>> on users. The state info (in a call, not in a call etc) needs to be 
>> updated in as close to real time as possible. Files won't do it.
> Douglas,
> 
> I've written a program named replicate that may be of interest to you.  
> It replicates all writes to a file over a socket.  The core of the 
> program is GNU tail, so it operates nearly in real time (it has 
> inherited the "--sleep-interval" argument for fine-tuning).  I've been 
> using it in production for over a year to push all writes to the 
> queue_log to a remote reporting server and it has been rock solid.
> 
> It operates almost identically to "tail -F" except every new write to 
> the file is written over a socket connection.  The remote end of the 
> connection is responsible for sending back an acknowledgment.  If it 
> doesn't, replicate will spool the write to a temporary file on the local 
> machine.  Once the remote end is responding again, the spool file is 
> written to it.  This allows us to have downtime (expected or unexpected) 
> on the reporting server without losing any queue_log records.
> 
> I've never released replicate publicly, because I'm not sure how taking 
> a program like tail and adapting it to a new purpose is handled by the 
> GPL.  However, I'm sure someone on this list more knowledgeable than 
> myself can help me understand that issue.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthew Roth
> InterMedia Marketing Solutions
> Software Engineer and Systems Developer
> 
> 
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