[asterisk-users] Dial

[Steve Totaro]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Steve Edwards<asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Steve Totaro wrote:
>
>> AMI has historically been flaky under high load.
>>
>> Not sure about these days, probably better, but once upon a time
>> pounding on the AMI would crash or just freeze a box, requiring a hard
>> reboot.  The machine would become totally unresponsive except to pings.
>>
>> Call files worked much better, but that is history, not sure if any of
>> it still applies, but call files work well.
>>
>> A combination of both call files and AMI would be elaborate.
>>
>> Maybe some kind of proggy that can interpret output and can issue
>> commands directly into the Asterisk CLI.
>
> My issue with call files is that it is not easy to get any sort of
> feedback with respect to the success or failure of the call, especially
> back into the program that created the call file. Plus, it seems so
> kludgey and inefficient to create a bunch of files and shuffle them about.
>
> Access through the CLI (via -r -x) is problematic because you are subject
> to the whims of another process changing verbosity levels and you may have
> to sift through a lot of cruft as well as the overhead of invoking a
> process for each command.
>
> Access through ${astrundir}/asterisk.ctl would be interesting, especially
> if more than 1 process attempts access.
>
> AMI sounds like the best path to me -- asuming it has improved it's
> stability. I'm still a 1.2 Luddite :)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Steve Edwards      sedwards at sedwards.com      Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST
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>

I was semi forced to 1.4 on some app_rpt boxen, but core boxes are
still 1.2 and maybe will become FS now that they have g729
transcoding.

I think my learning curve is better spent on FS and whatever fork of
OpenSER is most popular now than pursuing 1.6 and DAHDI.

I would have to unlearn and become unbiased from years of Asterisk
experience and evolution.

Not knocking it by any means, don't get me wrong.  It will always have
it's place.

I won't go beyond 1.4.19 or whatever version forces DAHDI down my throat.

-- 
Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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