[Asterisk-Users] fault tolerant asterisk system

[Nathan Alberti]

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Infocus wrote:
> Good idea.  A few more questions:
> 
> I want to have one asterisk box roll over to another if it goes down for any
> reason.  I heard there is a way to monitor the IP in case such an event
> occurs.
> 
> How does asterisk provide the failover mechanism?
> 
> Could someone explain how to achieve this project?
> 
> Thanks again.  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 5:26 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] fault tolerant asterisk system
> 
> mmm one other thought.. the load balancing switch needs to support A)
> failover and B) stream assocciation (so that it keeps you on the same
> * server as long as you are sending packets!)
> 
> On Apr 5, 2005 8:25 AM, Matt <mhoppes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I would say if you want true redundancy.. rsync your files on each
>>system.. have RAID on each system, and use a load balancing switch.
>>
>>Incidentally... infocus@?  Nortel? (eek did I just utter a bad word?)
>>
>>On Apr 5, 2005 7:53 AM, Infocus <infocus at todave.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I am looking to create an asterisk system with failover in case one
> 
> asterisk
> 
>>>box fails.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Current hardware:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>2 asterisk boxes (P3 950mhz gateway server and an older dell) w/128MB
> 
> RAM
> 
>>>each, latest release of asterisk/centos.
>>>
>>>1 RAID5 server with 2 SATA HD's
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Goals:
>>>
>>> I want Asterisk to take over active calls when one server fails.  I may
>>>want to store data (config files, voice mail, etc.) on the RAID server.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>What do you all think about this arrangement. my only concern is if my
> 
> RAID
> 
>>>server goes down, both asterisk clones become unusable. Would I be
> 
> better
> 
>>>off storing files on one asterisk box and then rsync with a cron job
> 
> every 1
> 
>>>minute?  Would it be better to have both servers running at the same
> 
> time
> 
>>>and processing calls, with the data stored on the server?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>A side question would be: if one asterisk box got overloaded with calls,
>>>could it roll over to the second box?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the advice/opinions, in advance!
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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