is there any way to do a failover/backup * server? I know that the Cisco SIP sets have a proxy backup option but how does * handle that? can 2 VM servers mount the same spool/*/vm dir's ? I dont care about in call failure, just want them to be able to pick up the line again and dial out with a backup server I think I can just keep the * config file synced and that might work. anyone tried this? Dave
On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 14:38, Dave Packham wrote:> is there any way to do a failover/backup * server? I know that the > Cisco SIP sets have a proxy backup option but how does * handle that? > can 2 VM servers mount the same spool/*/vm dir's ? > > I dont care about in call failure, just want them to be able to pick > up the line again and dial out with a backup server > > I think I can just keep the * config file synced and that might work. > anyone tried this?If you are talking VoIP, then any number of heartbeat apps should be able to do what you want. If you are talking about a PSTN machine, then you are complicated by a physical connection(FXO/FXS/E1/T1). I know at least one of our PSTN providers has talked to us about redundant links from different COs to make sure we didn't have a failure. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
I'd suggest using rsync to keep your /etc/asterisk directories up to date on the backup system. Take a look on Google or Sourceforge for scripts to do hot failovers where one server will pick up the IP address of another during a problem, or there are also routing tricks you can do for this. Suffice to say, there is nothing inherent in Asterisk that provides "failover" at the IP layer; you'll need some generic external server redundancy tool to handle that. JT>is there any way to do a failover/backup * server? I know that the >Cisco SIP sets have a proxy backup option but how does * handle >that? can 2 VM servers mount the same spool/*/vm dir's ? > >I dont care about in call failure, just want them to be able to >pick up the line again and dial out with a backup server > >I think I can just keep the * config file synced and that might >work. anyone tried this? > >Dave > > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users