[asterisk-users] "Simple" failover configuration

[jon pounder]

On 11/15/2012 10:27 AM, Eric Wieling wrote:


What I have found most difficult in any failover situation is having 
everything decide at the same time something has failed.
(this applies to anything not just asterisk)
For example how does the polycom react if it can make the sip 
connection, but no outbound routes are available on the primary server 
for some reason ? Is your setup smart enough to actually shut down 
asterisk completely if its upstream network interface or route is dead 
to prevent local connections ?

what if both servers are in that situation ? would they both shut down, 
neither ? what would you want to happen in that case ?

They are not trivial questions to answer and the answers depend on your 
setup, there is no univeral right way of handling it.

> Polycom phones after firmware 2.x register to BOTH the primary and backup servers.
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger at foundations.edu> wrote:
>
> 	
> 	Would the simplest approach to failover be to just configure my
> 	primary asterisk server as the first SIP server and my backup as the
> 	second?
> 	
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