[asterisk-users] Using asterisk as the recording server

[Steve Totaro]

Did you push it past 300 on two year old hardware and software?  Core 2 Duo
Dell Dimension desktop as proof of concept?

Port mirroring is basic on almost any newer switch.  Login, enable port
monitoring, write mem, done.

With a GUI, it takes all of thirty seconds.  I don't see how this is "heavy
handed"

I build robust and redundant systems, separate server for DB, recording,
gateways, in an all HA configuration.

Again, how many calls were you able record using RAMdisk?  Anywhere 300?

Bookmark my post, so when you reach your RAMDisk limit, you can join the big
league.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:05 AM, David Backeberg <dbackeberg at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Steve
> Totaro<stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com> wrote:
> > A dedicated recording server is recommended if you are going to be
> recording
> > a good deal of calls.
> >
> > You certainly would not want to run out of hard drive space on your
> Asterisk
> > server and bring it down.
>
> Bring it down, really?
>
> I think monitor would just complain that it couldn't write to a
> device. I suppose you could have problems if your recording partition
> was also your system partition, but that would be true for any
> application, such as apache web activity logs.
>
> > Also, with Asterisk (last I knew) ~60 simultaneous calls, the audio
> starts
> > breaking up very badly due to I/O.
>
> This would be channel and system independent. For instance i/o
> blocking could cause problems but why would it affect simple non-mixed
> audio, like simple bridged Dahdi channels?
>
> > OrecX can do over 300 simultaneous calls and only need port mirroring
> > enabled on your switch.  Even if it crashes or HD fills, call go on
> > normally.
>
> If a non-system hd fills, calls will go on normally.
> Port mirroring seems like a pretty heavy-handed way to do call recording.
>
> How about asterisk, writing to a ramdisk for recordings, and every
> five minutes or so syncing off the completed recordings to a SAN? (You
> may have guessed I did this, and pushed it past 60 simultaneous
> recordings).
>
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