[Asterisk-Users] Simulating the "lighted line in use" type of phone

[mattf]

It actually has components that run on the Asterisk server as well as a GUI
app that runs on the desktop(Win32 or Linux).

astguiclient was really designed for a larger environment than most of the
Asterisk client apps that are out there, and it is not as easy to set up. It
was also initially designed for the specific needs of my company.

It needs a MySQL server to be located somewhere that is accessible to the
Asterisk server and the client machines.(I'm thinking I should add a
$MySQL_port variable to the config files so that you can easily change the
MySQL port the server or client apps connect to for those with "creative"
firewalls)

The reasons that MySQL is used are simple: Scalability and Stability

I figured that out when I tried to have 60 concurrent connections to the
manager port getting updated info on channel statuses and the Asterisk
server quickly slowed to a crawl.

I wrote an application that runs on the Asterisk server to grab channel info
and dump it to the MySQL database so that potentially hundreds of clients
can be running at the same time without impacting the Asterisk server at
all.

Also, if you use the new optional Central Queue System that is bundled with
the latest release, the client app never actually connects to the Asterisk
server, all call initiations, transfers, and other commands are put into a
central MySQL queue table and are initiated locally on the Asterisk server.
But you don't have to use the CQS to have full functionality of the GUI app.

If anyone has any questions about astguiclient just send me an email.

MATT---


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Thompson [mailto:asteriskuser at aktzero.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:47 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the "lighted line in use" type
of phone


> I looked at it, and it won't work for me the way you have written it
> without me hacking at it. You insist on having MySQL run in network
> mode. I really don't want another port/service running on a box that
> is internet-facing... call me silly. :) For things like this, I'll
> only have the service running locally.    
> 
> Tim

Just because a port is active doesn't mean that the world has to be able
to see it.

I've not used this script(astguiclient), is it intended to be ran from
the client, or from the server?

-----
Andrew Thompson
http://aktzero.com/ 


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