[asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

[Alex Balashov]

Steve Totaro wrote:

> Agreed, simple cron jobs can count and distribute call files across 
> servers with very little scripting.
> 
> It is simple, and simple and efficient, and that is good.

If the requirements are also simple, I'd be the last to argue with the 
simplest approach.

In every case in which I've dealt with this, the requirements creep up 
and rapidly get more sophisticated once the initial proof of concept 
that just does plain old iterative dialing is in place.

That progression of events will most likely visit upon the implementor a 
sense that better care should have been taken to plan ahead 
architecturally.

> The AMI has been notorious for bogging down and halting systems when 
> used in an intensive way.

I've never seen that, myself.  But I have no trouble believing it.

That problem - along with Asterisk's other scalability quirks - must be 
properly managed.  More boxes to spread the calls onto and 
underutilising the hardware on each node is a better extreme to tend 
toward than the opposite.

-- Alex

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