[asterisk-users] Asterisk Real Time and sip.conf file used at thesame time

[kjcsb]

>I guess my problem might be that, because I pretend Asterisk to use my 
>sip.conf
> static configuration file and also MySQL tables referenced in 
> extconfig.conf
> like this:
>
> [settings]
> sipusers => mysql,asterisk,sip
> sippeers => mysql,asterisk,sip
> voicemail => mysql,asterisk,voicemail
>
> While I'm using one thing I can't use the other right???
>
Based on my limited knowledge you *can* use both at the same time.

Any Sip details created in the "sip" table in your "asterisk" database will 
be available immediately to Asterisk. They will not be reported in the 
command line if you enter sip show peers. This is sometimes called realtime 
dynamic.

Any Sip entries in sip.conf will *also* be available to Asterisk but only on 
reload e.g. sip reload. These will be reported in the command line if you 
enter sip show peers.

However to complicate matters further there are two additional things to be 
aware of:
realtime caching
realtime static

Realtime caching loads the sip details from the database in a similar way to 
how the details from sip.conf are loaded i.e. both the details from sip.conf 
and from the database will be reported if you enter sip show peers. However 
changes made in the database are not immediately available - you need to 
reload just like if you made a change in sip.conf. To enabled this you must 
set rtcachefriends=yes in sip.conf

Realtime static is totally different to the realtime discussed above. It 
uses a different database structure and is intended to replace the Asterisk 
static files. Beyond that I'm unsure.

Personally I think "realtime" is a very misleading name. Extconfig would be 
a better term. Extconfig allows Asterisk to read its configuration files 
from any external source. Asterisk can be configured to source certain 
configuration files (e.g. sip.conf) internally (the default which will read 
from a text file) or (these are mutually exclusive) from an external source 
such as a database (so-called realtime static). *In addition*, Extconfig can 
read configuration information from an external source on-the-fly (realtime 
dynamic) or cached (realtime cached).

If anything I've said above is incorrect I'd sure appreciate an expert 
correcting me.

Cameron