[Asterisk-Users] Conferencing with multiple servers

Douglas Garstang
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:32:15 -0000

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> From: Patrick [mailto:asterisk-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl]
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> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Conferencing with multiple servers
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> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:22 +0100, Wildheart wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >    I am trying to join 2 asterisk servers together using a
> sip channel.
> > This is so, if a user joins a conference on box A and another user
> > joins a conference on box B, providing they are in the same
> conference
> > room, the two conferences are joined via the sip channel.
> We only want
> > to join the conferences together if they have users in them and we
> > don't want to point all the conferences to one server as we
> would like
> > to try to balance the load a bit.

This is a general problem with the 'enterprise grade' aspects of
Asterisk. As far as I know, there is no way to distribute applications (eg:
Queue, Meetme etc) between multiple Asterisk systems. You really need to run the
applications that will serve a common set of phones on the same Asterisk system,
and then fail over to a secondary if necessary.

Doug.