[asterisk-users] A few (simple?) questions

[Patrick Lists]

On 14-12-11 10:18, Brynjolfur Thorvardsson wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I’ve been saddled with recreating a running Asterisk PBX setup (with
> Ruby on Rails). Due to some wrangling between my client and the original
> developers I am not able to talk to the developers themselves but have
> been given full SSH access to their servers!
>
> My questions are regarding their setup – they have functionality split
> over several servers as follows (all running CentOS):
>
> Server1 MySQL
>
> Server2 Ruby on Rails + CSTele
>
> Server3 Asterisk 1.4.19 + STUN #1
>
> Server4 Trunk (Asterisk 1.4.19) + STUN #2
>
> Server5 Apache ActiveMQ
>
> The system offers PBX services to ~10 small firms and connects via a SIP
> trunk to a Telecoms company.
>
> My questions are as follows:
>
> -STUN server – is it necessary (given that there are many free STUN
> servers on the Internet), and why two?

Why would you want to rely on a free stun server which can disappear 
anytime when offering commercial services? I would also deploy my own 
stun servers for paying customers.

> -Why have a separate Asterisk server for the trunk?

No idea. Maybe the question could be: why have two Asterisk servers? 
Perhaps for for redundancy/failover?

> -Is the Apache Message Queue server necessary?

No idea. I know BigBlueButton uses Apache MQ & Asterisk but I don't know 
the specifics.

> -My info says that server 2 is running CSTele but I have been unable to
> find a process or program that matches this (except for a comment in a
> daemon, ast_ami_events.rb, running on Rails server). Can anybody tell me
> what CSTele might be?

No idea.

Good luck!

Regards,
Patrick