[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER

[Douglas Garstang]

Preeeetty darn sure it isn't an option with the Polycoms.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 1:23 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
> 
> 
> On our phones, when you configure a backup proxy, the phone registers 
> simultaneously with both servers.  I can do a sip show peers 
> on either 
> server and see all the phones on the system.  Not sure if it 
> works for the 
> polycoms, which I'm just starting testing on, but works like 
> a charm with 
> the Cisco's.  This gives us the redundancy we need with the 
> system, and 
> hopefully the Polycoms handle it well.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> 
> > Don't quite follow. If the phones have a backup proxy 
> configured, wouldn't that mean they would only register with 
> that backup proxy if the primary was unavailable? In that 
> case, they'd only be registered with a single proxy, not two.
> >
> > We're using polycom phones... they support DNS SRV and seem 
> to work (mostly) well. Phones haven't seemed to have been the issue.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
> >> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:33 PM
> >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
> >>
> >>
> >> Well, most phones have a backup proxy setting, so we've got
> >> all our phones
> >> configured to register with both servers using the backup
> >> proxy, with an
> >> outbound proxy set up so the phones can call out from any
> >> server that's
> >> available.  We just got the outbound proxy stuff working, so we can
> >> literally walk in the server room and unplug a call server
> >> and only lose
> >> calls that are in progress, and nobody would know the
> >> difference.  We just
> >> got some polycoms in, I'm kinda excited to see how well they
> >> handle the
> >> redundancy.  The way we have it set up, we can drop a whole
> >> new server
> >> into the cluster, change like 3 lines of dialplan code, and
> >> add the server
> >> to the proxy list and voila, another server handling more 
> call load :)
> >>
> >> Aaron
> >>
> >> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> >>
> >>> Here's the $64,000 question... how are you handling
> >> redundant registrations?
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
> >>>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:32 AM
> >>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >>>> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> We've actually got two servers handling all the call volume,
> >>>> and when one
> >>>> server goes down, the other one fields all phone calls.
> >>>> We're using a
> >>>> combination of dialplan magic and dns to make it work.  As
> >>>> long as your
> >>>> phones can handle multiple ip's for host records and 
> you've got the
> >>>> dialplan set up right, HA is fairly easy to get working right.
> >>>>
> >>>> Aaron
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Bryan Mahin wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Well, I should say... Sporadically I can register to the
> >> virtual ip.
> >>>>> Other times I can't.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ________________________________
> >>>>>
> >>>>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >>>>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On
> >> Behalf Of Bryan
> >>>>> Mahin
> >>>>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:56 PM
> >>>>> To: Asterisk-Users
> >>>>> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Failover without SER
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hello all, I first want to thank everyone for all your
> >>>> contributions.
> >>>>> I've building an asterisk system for a month or so now 
> and without
> >>>>> everyone in the online asterisk community I wouldn't have
> >>>> made it this
> >>>>> far yet. Thanks! ...ok, mushiness out of the way.. :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am looking for a failover and ultimately a load
> >> balancing asterisk
> >>>>> solution. I've done a good bit of research and I haven't
> >>>> really found
> >>>>> any information for implementing an Asterisk only 
> failover or load
> >>>>> balancing solution. Everyone seems to use SER along with
> >> asterisk to
> >>>>> accomplish this goal. SER with asterisk may be in my
> >>>> future, but for now
> >>>>> I need to get this system up and running.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've setup heartbeat (ultramonkey), and are able to take my
> >>>> primary box
> >>>>> offline and have the second machine take over, but it isn't
> >>>> working in
> >>>>> regards to asterisk. I can't register phones to the virtual
> >>>> ip. I can
> >>>>> ssh into the virtual ip but my soft phones wont register.
> >> I get the
> >>>>> following error. Is this normal?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does anyone have any experience with this sort of setup
> >>>> without the use
> >>>>> of SER?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bryan Mahin
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Aaron Daniel
> >>>> Computer Systems Technician
> >>>> Sam Houston State University
> >>>> amdtech at shsu.edu
> >>>> (936) 294-4198
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