[asterisk-users] how to add-edit-delete entery into asterisk conf files
Sam Govind
govoiper at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 03:30:23 CDT 2011
Are you talking about AstDB or MySQL as DB backend for asterisk?
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:23 PM, virendra bhati <virbhati at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sammy,
>
> Thanks for share your experance and provide a new way of Asterisk
> communication with DB.
>
> Actually I am using this feature only for MOH feature of asterisk right
> now. But I will used it to all the configuration files too as per the needs.
>
>
> I am not too much aware abut the Asterisk DB handling that's why I used
> ODBC and mysql connection with asterisk.
>
> One more thing please tell me how to take backup of Asterisk DB ? It is my
> 1st and last things which hurt me.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Sam Govind <govoiper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1- Per my experience I've used DB with configuration files and I was
>> amazed that Asterisk was taking a union of DB + conf file configurations and
>> accepting both.So if you just make a simple script or DB function to do file
>> operation on some event/cronjob you'll be saved.
>>
>> Moreover, if that still may induce duplication into configurations then DB
>> replication and redundancy is the best way to cater your failure case. There
>> are hundreds of how-tos on DB redundancy and failure etc.
>>
>> 2- If you've to move forward with this approach I'll suggest you to read
>> only part of configuration file corresponding to one user i.e [user-1-area]
>> and over-write that part only. If a new user then just append. This way file
>> data loss will be minimized(may even avoided totally).
>>
>> Those were all my suggestions, if anyone else can add valuable comments to
>> this.
>>
>> -
>> sammy
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:45 AM, virendra bhati <virbhati at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sammy,
>>>
>>> Ans of 1st question:-
>>>
>>> As per my experiance Asterisk realtime(DB) based data will lost when
>>> your server is creash and you may not take backup of your server's DB.
>>> If any one know then plese guide me so that I will start working on it.
>>>
>>> Ans of 2nd question:-
>>>
>>> Your question is correct if more then one user will access these
>>> configuration files then might be some problem will come.
>>>
>>> For this issue I am just make a connection with server then close it
>>> after finishing the job. So problem will be avoided ....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Sam Govind <govoiper at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Though this might have been resolved/accomplished already but I've
>>>> couple of questions for Virendra Bhati.
>>>>
>>>> 1- If you are doing this to make new accounts for new users, why
>>>> couldn't you use Asterisk realtime(DB) based configurations of
>>>> Voicemail/MoH/SIP/dialplan etc wouldn't it be much easier than doing lots
>>>> and lots of filing !?
>>>>
>>>> 2- Since its a web-based Filing operations and if multiple users are to
>>>> use the same page for appending/overwriting their configurations wouldn't it
>>>> lead to information being lost when multiple users applying their changes ?
>>>> I wonder how do you handle that ?
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure I'd more questions when I started writing this response mail
>>>> but now I've forgotten those :P
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sammy.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 04:58:52PM +0530, virendra bhati wrote:
>>>>> > Hi list,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I want ot do basic work (add-edit-delete) into asterisk configuration
>>>>> files,
>>>>> > like sip.conf, manager.conf,musiconhold.conf etc.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Please guide me how to configure all these files from from AMI
>>>>> connection. I
>>>>> > am able to login into AMI from Login action but I want to do more
>>>>> task in to
>>>>> > it.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > *AMI login:- *
>>>>> >
>>>>> > *login.php*
>>>>> >
>>>>> > <?php
>>>>> > $socket = fsockopen("127.0.0.1","5038", $errno, $errstr, 30);
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Action: Login\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "UserName: root\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Secret: energy\r\n\r\n");
>>>>> > ?>
>>>>> > *AMI command:-*
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Below commands are for musiconhold.conf. I want to add new MOH
>>>>> context into
>>>>> > it.
>>>>> > <?php
>>>>> > include("login.php");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Action: UpdateConfig\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Filename: musiconhold.conf\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Srcfilename: musiconhold.conf\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Dstfilename: musiconhold.conf\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Action-000000: newcat\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Cat-000000: bhavik\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "mode: files\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "directory: /var/lib/asterisk/moh\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Reload: yes\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "ActionID: 9873497149817\r\n");
>>>>> > fputs($socket, "Action: Logoff\r\n\r\n");
>>>>>
>>>>> You're not really editing. You're writing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> * It requires Asterisk to be running, and accessible through the
>>>>> manager
>>>>> interface.
>>>>> * asterisk.conf may be in a path that is not the configuration
>>>>> directory. I'm not sure if this special case is handled.
>>>>> * #include are basically handled, but mostly for reading. IIRC the
>>>>> write
>>>>> is back to a single file. No idea about #exec, which will probably
>>>>> have odd interactions with UpdateConfig. Configuration templates
>>>>> ('[section](template)') are also not handled gracefully.
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > After doing all no success :((
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a report of the the thing that did not happen. Next time you
>>>>> ask
>>>>> a question, please report what actually does happen ("I got the
>>>>> following
>>>>> response: ...").
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Tzafrir Cohen
>>>>> icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
>>>>> +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
>>>>> http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir
>>>>>
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>>>
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