[Asterisk-Users] High Availability and Mass Deployment for Asterisk

[WipeOut]

Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:

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>>Sharing the config files is the smallest problem.. its sharing SIP
>>session and reistration information that is more of an issue..
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>>And managing the data flows..
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>I wouldn't really worry about that.  What happens when current PBX's
>fail.  Does another PBX automaticaly come up and take over the PRI lines?
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>The current expectation is that on PBX failure, current communications are
>broken and need to be re-established when the system comes up.
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>If you are deploying for VoIP only, then network sync and failover is
>sort-of do-able.  But, if it is being deployed with a hybrid (TDM and VoIP),
>then it gets hairy.  I would expect that failover of the TDM side (without
>interuption) would be the hardest and most costly to implement.
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>I would have a hot standby that gets syncs of dynamic data (voicemail,
>config changes...).  On primary failure, the hot standby gets the
>primary's
>IP and someone gets to move the PRI (or other TDM connections) lines.
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>It is kind of the same thing as if a channel bank failed.
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You are right in what you are saying.. I was thinking back to the 
original message that started this thread that talked about load 
balancing VoIP clients accross multiple servers.. Thats where my 
comments came from.. :)

Later..