asterisk users - Nov 2009 - Multi Tenant Asterisk Server ?

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Hi List,

What I hope is a simple question...
As the subject states, I would like to know if anyone has setup a
Multi Tenant Asterisk Server ?

If so, what would I need to do to get to a Multi Tenant setup
(preferably an Open Source solution) ?

Any suggestions/comments/pointers/URLs ?

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Gavin Spurgeon.
AKA Da Geek

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I added some examples a while back to the extensions.conf.sample and the
voicemail.conf.sample code to show how to support distinct domains for voice
mail contexts...  which was a big obstacle to multi-tenancy...  otherwise, you
couldn't have individual greetings, etc.

For places (like Montreal and Bruxelles) where you need to further tailor
context on a per-language basis, that's not been fully exercised... or for
states like Indiana and Idaho that exist in two timezones...

Actually, that's not entirely true.  I tested having a default timezone and
then overriding it on a per-SIP context basis and it seemed to work:

https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=16090

For POTS or ISDN this would be a little more work, but not impossible.

See the [acme] stuff in extensions.conf.sample and voicemail.conf.sample and
reply back (on list) if you have questions.

-Philip


On 11/13/2009 11:55 AM, Gavin Spurgeon wrote:
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> Hi List,
>
> What I hope is a simple question...
> As the subject states, I would like to know if anyone has setup a
> Multi Tenant Asterisk Server ?
>
> If so, what would I need to do to get to a Multi Tenant setup
> (preferably an Open Source solution) ?
>
> Any suggestions/comments/pointers/URLs ?
>
> - -- 
>
> Gavin Spurgeon.
> AKA Da Geek
>
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On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 19:55 +0000, Gavin Spurgeon wrote:
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> Hi List,
> 
> What I hope is a simple question...
> As the subject states, I would like to know if anyone has setup a
> Multi Tenant Asterisk Server ?
> 
> If so, what would I need to do to get to a Multi Tenant setup
> (preferably an Open Source solution) ?
> 
> Any suggestions/comments/pointers/URLs ?
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Entirely doable and reasonably well documented in the literature.  Pay
particular attention to the use of contexts.  If I recall correctly, the
followme and meetme applications do not support contexts.  I believe you
also have to be careful with SIP ids even in different contexts (someone
correct me on that if I'm wrong as Asterisk is only a small part of my
job and so the details are not always fresh in my mind).  For those, we
rely upon some other globally unique attribute, e.g., in our
environment, all tenants have a unique posix uid and username.  We use
that username for the SIP ID and the uid for the meetme and followme
identifiers.  Hope this helps - John

PS - Ah - multi-tenant parking - it is broken as recently as 1.6.1.7.
There is a patch which works perfectly.  I do not know if that patch was
included in 1.6.1.8.  In fact, if someone knows, please respond as we
need to do that upgrade for security purposes and are concerned about
breaking multi-tenant parking.
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John A. Sullivan III
Open Source Development Corporation
+1 207-985-7880
jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com

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