[asterisk-users] Managing complex setups with Asterisk

[martin f krafft]

Hello,

we are finally going to redesign our Asterisk-Setup, which has grown
quite complex. We have five sites with a total of 400 users, 15 SIP
registrations and 3 IAX registrations. We do not use any
VoIP-hardware, so it's all software-based. But we make heavy use of
features, including voicemail, followme, conferencing,
call-recording, and queuing.

As I said, the configuration has grown quite complex — so complex
that we are all a bit scared to touch it. It works, but as we are
now adding a sixth site and upgrading the hardware, we thought it
would be a good opportunity to get the sixth site up and running on
a new box, then migrate the other sites.

Now we are trying to figure out how to organise sip.conf, iax.conf
and extensions.conf. I read about Realtime configuration, but I was
a bit disappoointed because it's really just moving the
section-key-value store from the flat files to a relational
database without really making use of any relational features. Sure,
it's realtime thereafter, but not any less complex.

So what to do? Does anyone have a similar setup and would like to
offer a glance into their configs? Are there best practices? Or is
there maybe even software (Linux) to manage setups?

Cheers,

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