[Asterisk-Users] Multiple Servers and 1 Central Voicemail

[Anton Krall]

What about MWI config on sip.conf or iax.conf? user at context? All you users
have the same contexts for checking MWI? By context, does it mean the
dialing context or just the [] context used on the voicemail.conf file? 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jason Brown
Sent: Martes, 12 de Abril de 2005 12:56 p.m.
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Multiple Servers and 1 Central Voicemail

I think you guys are making this out to be tougher than it actually is.

I created an NFS share on a machine called asterisk.

Then I created a folder on my asterisk box called /mnt/asterisk.

Then I mounted the NFS share on the asterisk box to the asterisk share.

Then I moved the directories that were in the local asterisk machine
/var/spool/asterisk (what are there - incoming, outgoing, voicemail, and
another) to the /mnt/asterisk folder.

The hack up /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf and change the spool directory to
/mnt/asterisk.

Asterisk doesn't know any better, it passes MWI info based on what's in the
/spool/voicemail/vm-context directory, it don't care where it is as long as
you told it where the spool directory is located in asterisk.conf.

As for people with more than 1 server, admittedly, I don't use asterisk
realtime db. I use MySQL DB that writes configs to the flat files because
the consensus was that realtime MySQL wasn't reliable. In my network, the
config files are rewritten every 5 minutes from db by a cron job, with
asterisk getting a reload command. Once it get to the multiple server issuue
I am just going to expand my provisioning script so that I can pick which
server to provision asterisk box X or ata Y to. Then each server will write
configs to the flatfiles from MySQL based on server. 

Trust me though, I promise, 1 central VM store does work and work well in an
asterisk environment.