OK, I did some testing with asterisk 1.0.7. I went into production with asterisk 1.0.9.
I am using a 2 PCI slot 1U Dell 1750 server. I am using 2 TE110P cards. 1 PRI to Telco. 1 E&M to Panasonic DBS PBX with 150 people on it. (all Panasonic people reach Telco via asterisk) I technically put the asterisk server into full production a little earlier than I wanted. I used to have Telco into Panasonic and E&M to asterisk from there, but my PRI card in the Panasonic died and since we were intending to replace it, I didn't want to spend the money on the card, so I swapped the cables and put the asterisk first. Needs: I need to add a 4port FXO/FXS card. (911 failover and fax) I need to upgrade to a newer server. I would like to go to the 1.2 branch of Asterisk. Questions: How are other upgrading asterisk on production systems? Are you buying duplicate Digium cards to test configs and reduce downtime? (do you have spares on the shelf anyways?) If I do buy duplicate cards, would I be better served to get a 2 or 4 port T1 card instead of 2 1port cards? (actually considering hardware echo can anyway) I intend to recompile on the new server, copy over configs, VMs and retweak my faxtoemail, etc. But I would still need to test my configs to make sure that all previous options are still supported with the 1.2 branch, right? I know that I could have some redundancy in SIP if I use a SER server or two, but this is the server with my T1/PRI links. Please post how you folks are upgrading your production systems. -- -- Steven May you have the peace and freedom that come from abandoning all hope of having a better past. --- - --- - - - - - - - -- - - - --- - ------ - - --- - - -- - - - -- - - - _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users