[Asterisk-Users] Dynamic SIP.CONF

[Brian Cuthie]

So I've been kind of struggling with the notion of making my Asterisk 
implementations dynamic, too. While I'd like to make everything directly 
database driven, I'm not sure Asterisk is quite there yet.

I've been thinking of writing something that creates appropriate 
configuration files from the database on a periodic basis, and then does 
an Asterisk reload. This would introduce a small delay into 
configuration changes, but it does have other benefits such as 
decoupling the design of the database from Asterisk.

Any thoughts?

-brian

Fran Boon wrote:

> Darren Nay wrote:
>
>> We are looking to expand our usage of Asterisk and I am trying to 
>> make as
>> much of the configuration dynamic as I possibly can.  The only part 
>> that I'm
>> having problems with is sip.conf.  I can get asterisk to register each
>> extension with our local SER SIP proxy dynamically by using the
>> "sipfriends" table in the database, but I'm having trouble with the 
>> message
>> waiting indicators (ie. SIP NOTIFY packets when a new voicemail is 
>> waiting).
>
> -SNIP-
>
>> Is there a way to make this dynamic so that I don't have to add this 
>> into
>> sip.conf -every- single time that I add a new extension?
>
>
> Only by extending the functionality of sip friends to include this 
> extra field...
>
> I wouldn't bother doing this as ast_data (formally res_data) is being 
> developed to replace sip/iax friends.
> If you want to take a sneak preview at this then see:
> http://svn.asteriskdocs.org/res_data/ast_data/
>
>> I tried the following, but it didn't work ..
>> [default]
>> type=peer
>> host=dynamic
>> dtmfmode=inband
>> username=${EXTEN}
>> Mailbox=${EXTEN}
>> Am I on the right track, or way off base? :-)
>
>
> Way off base ;)
> That kind of syntax only works in extensions.conf
>
> F
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