[asterisk-users] Running Multiple Instances of Asterisk

[Douglas Garstang]

We aren't accessing ZAP channels. No Digium hardware is installed!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric "ManxPower" Wieling [mailto:eric at fnords.org]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:24 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Running Multiple Instances of Asterisk
> 
> 
> Best of luck getting multiple instances of Asterisk to play nice when 
> accessing Zap channels.
> 
> 
> James Texter wrote:
> > Doug,
> >     I actually see this as a pretty logical way to solve 
> the problem.
> > Please keep us posted if you have any luck sorting out 
> running multiple
> > instances, or mail me off-list if no one else is interested.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > On 9/25/06 1:52 PM, "Douglas Garstang" 
> <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Brian Rogan [mailto:brogan at syderial.com]
> >>> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:40 PM
> >>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Running Multiple Instances 
> of Asterisk
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Doug,
> >>>
> >>> Why do you want to do this to begin with?  I think the best
> >>> solution is
> >> Because we are trying to build a hosted IPT solution, not 
> an enterprise
> >> solution.
> >>
> >>> to use the realtime stuff, and build your own management 
> tools, which
> >>> would allow you to do this (you could drastically cut the 
> complexity
> >>> with the right tools).  Even if you could run them together, how
> >>> would you put everything on the appropriate ports?  How 
> would you deal
> >>> with multiple instances accessing hardware?
> >> Realtime is resource intensive, requiring many queries to 
> perform simple
> >> lookups. We can easily create multiple virtual IP address, 
> and since each
> >> virtual IP address can bind to port 5060, each phone can 
> register with
> >> domain.com:5060 without a problem. We don't need multiple 
> instances to access
> >> hardware as this is a SIP only solution. Our PSTN access 
> is via external
> >> Audiocodes gateways, not via Digium T1 cards.
> >>
> >> The dial plan was not able to handle the complexity we 
> needed (for example the
> >> MySQL() application command could not do nested queries), 
> and so right now, we
> >> have a 2000 line python script and several very complex 
> MySQL stored
> >> procedures in order to fulfull our requirements.
> >>
> >>> I'm not convinced that maintaining the config files, binaries
> >>> and other
> >>> components of multiple asterisk's is easier than just 
> building better
> >>> tools to configure one.
> >> I am. I look at our configuration which is currently for 
> one customer, and
> >> there's already several dozen contexts in order to cover a 
> lot of complexity.
> >> Multiply that by a couple of hundred, and I won't want to 
> be administering it!
> >>
> >>> You could also try User-Mode-Linux or something like that.
> >> I was going to give v-servers a try. There's a guide at:
> >> http://www.telephreak.org/papers/vpa/
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