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

[Steve Blair]

Cameron:

 After a little reading it would seem that adding a column for externotify
to the Asterisk Realtime Voicemail MySQL table should allow Asterisk
to use an external program in the same way it does in the non-realtime
configuration. Have you tried this approach? If so please explain what
happened (I have a vested interest in finding out :-)  )

Thanks,Steve

Steve Blair wrote:

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> Cameron Beattie wrote:
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>> Hi Steve
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>> 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.
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> Oh I see. I would like to use MySQL in the near future but as I said 
> our implementation
> is small right now.
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>> 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.
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> Yes we have duplicate settings. I'll need to begin addressing the use 
> of MySQL with
> Asterisk in about one week from now. If I discover anything that might 
> be helpful
> I'll let you know.
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>> 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"
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>>> 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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