[asterisk-users] Two Asterisk machines for redundancy

[Peter den Hartog]

Rsync to sync /etc/asterisk and use keepalived/heartbeat for a failover
Asterisk IP.

Make sure to read this ->
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+High+Availability+Solutions

<http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+High+Availability+Solutions>For
"From IP rewrite"

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Daniel Tryba <daniel at tryba.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:24:23AM -0800, bilal ghayyad wrote:
> > 1) If I did modification on the configuration, how this will be
> > applied to the other machine?
>
> My solution was to create a rsync script to copy the configuration of
> the primary server to the standby (every 15m).
>
> > 2) I am going to use E1s, so what is the method to be able to let the
> > calls go for other Asterisk machine if first one is down (due to
> > maintenance or upgrade)? Is there a switch or something can help in
> > this?
>
> Yes, there are E1 switches. I use this one:
> http://www.oriontelecom.com/pro_switch/e1_switch/e1_failover_switch.html
> I disabled the automatic failover detection though, a script that is run
> when the standby becomes active switches the circuits from A to B or the
> otherway around.
>
> An other way is to use an external E1 to SIP gateway. Cons are that they
> are more expensive then Digium hardware and you still need more than 1
> if you want to avoid this being a single point of failure. But they can
> be more flexible in some setups (multiple active asterisk machines
> connecting simulataniously)
>
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>
>   Daniel Tryba
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