[asterisk-users] Managing complex setups with Asterisk

[Raj Mathur ( राज माथुर )]

On Friday 16 Nov 2012, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Paul Belanger <paul.belanger at polybeacon.com> 
[2012.11.08.2304 +0100]:
> > Either way, it sounds like you need to store your data some place
> > and start building it out.
> 
> To recap: given that Asterisk RealTime doesn't really provide
> anything more than real-time access to data (i.e. the data in the
> database are not any more structured that they are in
> /etc/asterisk), any more logical and/or abstract approach to
> Asterisk configuration means that the data have to come from
> elsewhere and be brought into shape.
> 
> Either the abstraction happens in a relational database and Asterisk
> accesses stored procedures or views (I would not use LDAP due to
> childhood traumata), or the relational database is used to generate
> Asterisk's configuration files, or some other data source is used to
> generate these configuration files.
> 
> It's a shame that noone has done anything into this direction yet.
> On the other hand, it means that there aren't already a dozen
> PHP+MySQL hacks out there, and that's a good thing.
> 
> So if I design the database (PostgreSQL), anyone interested in
> providing a frontend, e.g. using Django?
> 
> Are people interested in discussing the design here and making it
> widely usable? I only have my own three use-cases to refer to, and
> I would probably impose my own paradigms…
> 
> Does anyone already have something done into that domain?

Interesting.  Let's discuss.

Warning: Not a fan of using whitespace as semantic markup, so no Django 
this side.  Fine with Perl or Java, though.

Regards,

-- Raj
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