[asterisk-users] Managing complex setups with Asterisk

[Paul Belanger]

On 12-11-08 01:41 AM, martin f krafft 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? ;)
>
Then you are on the right path.

Either way, it sounds like you need to store your data some place and 
start building it out.  I don't know of any existing tools to do that, 
and I'm in the same boat.  I have everything I want / need managed by 
puppet, but more dynamic data needs to be moved out into something else.

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