[asterisk-users] Pointers to replace astdb

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Nguyen wrote:

> Hi listers,
>
> We want to implement one call center with asterisk. The idea is it should be
> scalable, with openser as an dispatcher and bunch of asterisk servers to do
> ACD, Queues, Agents things... Easy to say :(
>
> Look closely to the current asterisk, we do see some problem:
>
> - SIP registrations was stored in astdb.
> - And queue members also was stored in astdb.
> - ...
>
> asterisk was built as standalone PBX, so it's understandable.
>
> Is it time to replace astdb with something like MySQL, so all asterisk boxes
> in cluster can have identical access to all the informations, devstates,
> etc...?

No. Please do not replace astdb.

Provide a differenet mechanism if you need to, (at compile time?) but 
please leave astdb as it is for those of us who use it and like it as it 
is. It's simple, fast, and for 99% of installations, it's just fine.

Gordon