asterisk users - Aug 2003 - ATA 186 & DynExtenDB (query extensions vía sql)

Hi all:

Very disappointed, finally I left the attended call transfer with ATA 186
using SIP. With image 2.16-1, ATA sens '486 - Busy Here' when trying to
transfer the call.. I consulted with Cisco guys and accepts that some
problems with this service exist. Soon as I can I will try using MGCP.

My doubt now is if somebody proved the DynExtenDB application. I read some
commentaries but they are not conclusive. One of my clients wishes to
install *, but it makes many modifications during the day, and for secutrity
reasons I wish not give to him access to the * console. I'm doing some tests
making changes in extensions.conf v?a php scripts and works fine, but I
can't reload the configuration without droping service (asterisk reload),
always without use * console.
If somebody knows some method to create the extensions in mysql or some
other data base and how * reads the data of that data base, I will be
thankful to say to me.

Best regards,

Gus

Thanks a lot to Brian!

asterisk -rx "extension reload"


----- Original Message -----
From: "CW_ASN" <cw_asn@fibertel.com.ar>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:36 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] ATA 186 & DynExtenDB (query extensions v?a sql)

> Hi all:
>
> Very disappointed, finally I left the attended call transfer with ATA 186
> using SIP. With image 2.16-1, ATA sens '486 - Busy Here' when
trying to
> transfer the call.. I consulted with Cisco guys and accepts that some
> problems with this service exist. Soon as I can I will try using MGCP.
>
> My doubt now is if somebody proved the DynExtenDB application. I read some
> commentaries but they are not conclusive. One of my clients wishes to
> install *, but it makes many modifications during the day, and for
secutrity
> reasons I wish not give to him access to the * console. I'm doing some
tests
> making changes in extensions.conf v?a php scripts and works fine, but I
> can't reload the configuration without droping service (asterisk
reload),
> always without use * console.
> If somebody knows some method to create the extensions in mysql or some
> other data base and how * reads the data of that data base, I will be
> thankful to say to me.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gus
>
>
>
>
>
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CW_ASN wrote:
>My doubt now is if somebody proved the DynExtenDB application. I read some
>commentaries but they are not conclusive. 
>
DynExtenDB is absolutely the wrong way to deal with dynamic extensions 
in Asterisk.  Yes, it may function, but it will not scale.
>One of my clients wishes to
>install *, but it makes many modifications during the day, and for secutrity
>reasons I wish not give to him access to the * console. I'm doing some
tests
>making changes in extensions.conf v?a php scripts and works fine, but I
>can't reload the configuration without droping service (asterisk
reload),
>  
>
a reload doesn't drop any service...I asterisk -rx 'reload'
production
boxes dozens of times per day.
>If somebody knows some method to create the extensions in mysql or some
>other data base and how * reads the data of that data base, I will be
>thankful to say to me.
>  
>
Karl Putland and myself worked on a MySQL based switch, but stopped 
working on it because we had no real motivation behind our work and we 
never decided to really pester 'the man' about getting answers to our 
(mainly Karl's) questions.

If you have the proper motivation, I'm sure Karl or myself could free 
ourselves up to solve those problems that we gave up so easily on before. 


Jeremy McNamara