[Asterisk-Users] MWI for SER and Asterisk - ast_data vs "realtime"

[Cameron Beattie]

Hi Steve

Asterisk realtime Architecture (ARA or realtime) is a way of storing all 
configs in a database rather than flatfiles. ast_data is another. There's 
more on the wiki if you're interested.

With your setup, how does Asterisk know where to send the MWI notification? 
Do you have duplicate settings i.e. the user details are stored both in SER 
and Asterisk? That's what I want to avoid.

Regards

Cameron
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Blair" <blairs at isc.upenn.edu>
To: "Cameron Beattie" <ext_news at appsfarm.com>; "Asterisk Users Mailing 
List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] MWI for SER and Asterisk - ast_data vs 
"realtime"


>
> I'm not familiar with the use of the word "realtime" in this context.
> What do you mean? I have been using vmnotify to toggle MWI
> on 79x0 phones that are registered to SER and use Asterisk for
> voicemail and it works great. Admittedly we have a small installation
> (about 75 users) but so far this approach works reliably.
>
>
>
> Cameron Beattie wrote:
>
>> Bug 002980 contains a patch that delivers MWI from Asterisk to SIP 
>> clients registered with SER. It requires ast_data which doesn't patch the 
>> current CVS HEAD. Since I need MWI and I want Asterisk and SER to store 
>> data in a shared database I could:
>> - use an old version of Asterisk and install ast_data. The patch author 
>> runs a large-scale clustered SER/Asterisk environment and believes 
>> ast_data to be superior to "realtime". However "realtime" may now have 
>> developed to the point that these objections are no longer relevant. 
>> Specific problems still seem to be SIP clients behind NAT and voicemail 
>> notifications (both very important to me)
>> - use realtime and write something that gives me the functionality 
>> required and hope that the NAT and voicemail issues get fixed soon. Apart 
>> from it being a pain to write this I also have not heard of anyone using 
>> SER + Asterisk "realtime" in a large-scale production environment. If 
>> anyone has had any such successes it would be good to know about them.
>>  I would appreciate thoughts on these (or any other) alternatives.
>>  Regards
>>  Cameron
>>
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