asterisk users - Sep 2014 - Multicast AMI?

Hi!

Maybe I have overlooked something, but I am sort of facing the following
problem. I always used
the AMI interface to allow (older) client programs on Windows to use their TAPI
client code in
order to communicate with Asterisk servers. The functionality is basically
minimal as only
incoming calls need to get detected and there are occasional outgoing ones.

For the outgoing calls, a regular AMI connection is fine, but having a lot of
machines (> 20)
maintaining separate TCP connection, just to listen to some events seems to be
too much effort.
Does a (read-only) multicast for relevant events make any sense (except for data
protection issues)?

I am considering writing a small proxy that does exactly that with correspondig
changes for my
Telephony Service Provider (TSP). Would it make any sense to implement this as
an option for the
Asterisk program? Basically, Actions and Action responses via TCP and Events via
multicast?

jg

have you seen astmanproxy?

best regards

On Sep 23, 2014, at 10:05, jg <webaccounts173 at jgoettgens.de> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Maybe I have overlooked something, but I am sort of facing the following
problem. I always used the AMI interface to allow (older) client programs on
Windows to use their TAPI client code in order to communicate with Asterisk
servers. The functionality is basically minimal as only incoming calls need to
get detected and there are occasional outgoing ones.
> 
> For the outgoing calls, a regular AMI connection is fine, but having a lot
of machines (> 20) maintaining separate TCP connection, just to listen to
some events seems to be too much effort. Does a (read-only) multicast for
relevant events make any sense (except for data protection issues)?
> 
> I am considering writing a small proxy that does exactly that with
correspondig changes for my Telephony Service Provider (TSP). Would it make any
sense to implement this as an option for the Asterisk program? Basically,
Actions and Action responses via TCP and Events via multicast?
> 
> jg
> 
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