Good idea. A few more questions: I want to have one asterisk box roll over to another if it goes down for any reason. I heard there is a way to monitor the IP in case such an event occurs.
How does asterisk provide the failover mechanism? Could someone explain how to achieve this project? Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 5:26 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] fault tolerant asterisk system mmm one other thought.. the load balancing switch needs to support A) failover and B) stream assocciation (so that it keeps you on the same * server as long as you are sending packets!) On Apr 5, 2005 8:25 AM, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would say if you want true redundancy.. rsync your files on each > system.. have RAID on each system, and use a load balancing switch. > > Incidentally... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nortel? (eek did I just utter a bad word?) > > On Apr 5, 2005 7:53 AM, Infocus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I am looking to create an asterisk system with failover in case one asterisk > > box fails. > > > > > > > > Current hardware: > > > > > > > > 2 asterisk boxes (P3 950mhz gateway server and an older dell) w/128MB RAM > > each, latest release of asterisk/centos. > > > > 1 RAID5 server with 2 SATA HD's > > > > > > > > Goals: > > > > I want Asterisk to take over active calls when one server fails. I may > > want to store data (config files, voice mail, etc.) on the RAID server. > > > > > > > > What do you all think about this arrangement. my only concern is if my RAID > > server goes down, both asterisk clones become unusable. Would I be better > > off storing files on one asterisk box and then rsync with a cron job every 1 > > minute? Would it be better to have both servers running at the same time > > and processing calls, with the data stored on the server? > > > > > > > > A side question would be: if one asterisk box got overloaded with calls, > > could it roll over to the second box? > > > > Thanks for the advice/opinions, in advance! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users