[Asterisk-Users] Failover question

[John Cianfarani]

What if asterisk was to start have more options for failover from an
application perspective?  Eg. Some form of heartbeat between the two
servers.  Within the heartbeat it could pass registration information
and call information between servers.  (Not sure if this is somehow
possible already) 

So if you were to use that with something like HA/clustering the backup
server would always know what calls / registrations were active.

Thanks
John



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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joseph
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:46 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Failover question

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.

-- 
#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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