[Asterisk-Users] Failover question

[Michiel van Baak]

On 09:45, Thu 30 Jun 05, Joseph wrote:
> I think this is a weak point in asterisk.
> It doesn't even have a means of email notification if IAX or SIP
> registration fails.
> This would need to be added to the list of priorities.  
> But I'm not sure who to address to.
> 
> Most phone are controlled by their own software interface and have the
> ability to re-register at certain intervals (ex. every hour) but that is
> not much of a help and or acceptable if you are left without phone for
> one hour.   So this is not an asterisk related problem but the software
> interface that controls the phones.  
> The simplest solution would be to add email notification in such
> software and/or fail-over IP if one fails.  But that is up to the
> hardware manufacture to come up with this solution.  
> All asterisk could provide is just an email warning that certain phone
> failed to register.
> 

We have some users that take phones with them etc.
So in that case you get emails from the system while there
is nothing wrong.
I think this is not a job for asterisk but for Linux-HA.
Afterall that's the process handling the ip takeover etc.

Just my 2 cents

> -- 
> #Joseph
> 
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:19 +0300, Mohamed A. Gombolaty wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > I am using Linux-High Availability between two Asterisk servers, everything is
> > fine but I do have one problem with this, When a server fails and the other
> > assumes the ip address and start asterisk on server 2, the ip phone must
> > re-register themselves again, otherwise the phones won't ring.
> > 
> > Does anyone have Ideas of how to overcome this.
> 
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