[asterisk-users] Managing complex setups with Asterisk

[Logan Bibby]

What about just setting up a database which stores your data however you
want then generate static files from that data or creating views for
realtime (where appropriate)?

That's how I do it with my company's system.

To keep things not so complicated, I have AGI scripts. Keeps things clean
and is a little more flexible and powerful.

- Logan
On Nov 8, 2012 12:41 AM, "martin f krafft" <madduck at madduck.net> wrote:

> also sprach Paul Belanger <paul.belanger at polybeacon.com> [2012.11.07.2340
> +0100]:
> > What is your point of pain? Right now we do most of the
> > configuration, provisioning, and system management outside of
> > asterisk.
>
> My systems are already managed automatically, thankfully no longer
> with Puppet. ;)
>
> I am only talking about configuration of Asterisk, whether in
> /etc/asterisk or some sensible external data source. My point of
> pain is the complexity due to a couple of special cases, e.g.
>
>   - Roaming users, i.e. no 1:n relation between sites and users;
>   - Multiple devices per user (some want them all to ring, some want
>     individual extensions but shared voicemail, …)
>   - Keeping track of the mappings between incoming calls (from SIP
>     providers) and extensions to ring (using incoming contexts and
>     extension groups for that)
>   - Keeping track of which extension uses which outgoing trunk
>   - …
>
> With a logical naming scheme, a policy and include files, this is
> all working. But it's very error-prone and there is a bit of
> redundancy in the information, so I was wondering if there wasn't
> a better way.
>
> > Either way, don't manually build your 6th machine.  Start from
> > fresh using some sort of automated tool (chef / puppet).  This
> > will help you get on the right path.
>
> The new machine for the 6th site is up and running (provisioning
> (not image-based) took less than half an hour). What now? ;)
>
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