Re: [asterisk-users] ISDN PRIs and taking a server down for maintenance - blocking issue

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Smith
Hi Tim, Imagine the scenario where we had 10x Asterisk servers, with calls presenting sequentially starting from the first server, then server two, etc. If we took down the first server for maintenance with 'asterisk -rx stop gracefully' we then will block all incoming calls to all servers as

Re: [asterisk-users] ISDN PRIs and taking a server down for maintenance - blocking issue

2008-02-14 Thread Matt
Honestly.. this sounds like a telco issue.I understand what the other person is saying about the PRI still being technically up... BUT... if the channel is BUSY/BLOCKED/WHATEVER, the Telco should be forwarding the call to the next available channel, which they clearly are not doing. On Thu,

[asterisk-users] ISDN PRIs and taking a server down for maintenance - blocking issue

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Smith
Hi there, I currently have multiple Asterisk servers using Sangoma A104d Quad ISDN E1s. Basically our telco is presenting calls in order of the ISDNs on our servers. SERVER1=1,2,3,4 SERVER2=5,6,7,8 We have redundancy in that if SERVER1 is shutdown then each ISDN PRI is in alarm and the

Re: [asterisk-users] ISDN PRIs and taking a server down for maintenance - blocking issue

2008-02-13 Thread Tim Nelson
Even if * is shutdown, zaptel is still running and your ISDN channels are still technically up. Shutting down zaptel should close the channels and put those circuits into alarm mode. Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 - Original Message - From: Andrew