Ahhh grasshopper, you see the master plan :) That is about the only part that hasn't been finished yet and is what I am working on now unless I have to stop and take care of the SER location issue.. Hopefully one of the SER developers will take care of that so I can finish my work on the Asterisk patches. Actually what I am building is a system that would not only handle the VM files but ANY audio files including music on hold, announcements, etc. ---------------------------------------- Michael Shuler, C.E.O. BitWise Communications, Inc. (CLEC) And BitWise Systems, Inc. (ISP) 682 High Point Lane East Peoria, IL 61611 Office: (217) 585-0357 Cell: (309) 657-6365 Fax: (309) 213-3500 E-Mail: mike@bwsys.net Customer Service: (877) 976-0711
-----Original Message----- From: Java Rockx [mailto:javarockx@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 4:28 PM To: Michael Shuler; serusers@lists.iptel.org Subject: RE: [Serusers] Location table issues
This is really great news for me! Thanks.
One more question. Do these patches let Asterisk store recorded voice mail messages in MySQL or are they still stored under /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail?
The reason I ask is the former allows for an asterisk server to go offline and not affect the customers ability to get their messages.
Regards, Paul
--- Michael Shuler <mike@bwsys.net> wrote:
Oh yeah, one more REALLY important feature. It allows you to have a cluster of Asterisk servers all run off a live common config. No more having to mess around with NFS or trying to sync config files :) Mark Spencer has said he plans on putting this patch in Asterisk 1.1 or 1.2 but since 1.0.0 JUST came out you can bet it will be a while.
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Michael Shuler, C.E.O. BitWise Communications, Inc. (CLEC) And BitWise Systems, Inc. (ISP) 682 High Point Lane East Peoria, IL 61611 Office: (217) 585-0357 Cell: (309) 657-6365 Fax: (309) 213-3500 E-Mail: mike@bwsys.net Customer Service: (877) 976-0711
-----Original Message----- From: serusers-bounces@lists.iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces@lists.iptel.org] On Behalf Of Michael Shuler Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 2:35 PM To: 'Java Rockx'; serusers@lists.iptel.org Subject: RE: [Serusers] Location table issues
Yup, that's exactly what they do. We put the full LERG in there which is about 350,000 routes and it doesn't even bother it thanks to MySQL's ability to search records lightning fast.
We also use it to provision our customers and their routing live via some PHP scripts which simply write to the MySQL tables appropriately. No more restarting or reloading Asterisk :)
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Michael Shuler, C.E.O. BitWise Communications, Inc. (CLEC) And BitWise Systems, Inc. (ISP) 682 High Point Lane East Peoria, IL 61611 Office: (217) 585-0357 Cell: (309) 657-6365 Fax: (309) 213-3500 E-Mail: mike@bwsys.net Customer Service: (877) 976-0711
-----Original Message----- From: Java Rockx [mailto:javarockx@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 2:21 PM To: Michael Shuler; serusers@lists.iptel.org Subject: RE: [Serusers] Location table issues
Michael,
I think your idea for a db_mode 3 is a good idea especially considering that I'll soon be in the same position as you with respect to ser.
On an Asterisk note you mentioned patches at http://svn.asteriskdocs.org/res_data/. Do these patches allow Asterisk to store user and server configuration data in a MySQL database rather than in .conf files? If not, could you elaborate a bit on what these patches fix or features that they provide?
Best Regards, Paul
--- Michael Shuler <mike@bwsys.net> wrote:
I figured that's what people would say :( thanks though.
I thought of that but the problem is that it takes up to the max time of my longest REGISTER client timer before its back in sync with the one that runs off the DB. It would be nice if there was a 3rd option i.e. modparam("usrloc", "db_mode", 3) that would make it read only at startup to "seed" the memory database. The reason I need this is because I have a few SER servers behind a Foundry ServerIron XL layer 4 switch. When I bring the failed server back online the Foundry automatically recognizes that port 5060 is alive again and immediately starts sending it traffic. If the RAM based location table hasn't been fully populated by the time this happens then we have a bunch of failed calls until it syncs up which in my case is up to 5 min. I can get around this manually by removing it from the cluster config in the Foundry but that takes away from the automation of the whole thing.
Andrei/Jiri, what do you guys think of adding that as an option? It seems to me that it would be the most logical way to go about doing it and should be very easy to do since all it is combining parts of mode 0 and 1/2. I have little experience doing any programming in SER otherwise I would just write it and submit it as a patch. Most of my time gets sucked up into Asterisk patches (see http://svn.asteriskdocs.org/res_data/ for MySQL dynamic config files, this is a must for carriers... Well at least for me :) ), but if you 2 don't have time or don't think its worth while then I guess I will have find time. Please let me know what you guys think of this as soon as you get a chance.
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Michael Shuler, C.E.O. BitWise Communications, Inc. (CLEC) And BitWise Systems, Inc. (ISP) 682 High Point Lane East Peoria, IL 61611 Office: (217) 585-0357 Cell: (309) 657-6365 Fax: (309) 213-3500 E-Mail: mike@bwsys.net Customer Service: (877) 976-0711
-----Original Message----- From: Maxim Sobolev [mailto:sobomax@portaone.com] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 3:28 AM To: Michael Shuler Cc: serusers@lists.iptel.org Subject: Re: [Serusers] Location table issues
Michael Shuler wrote:
> Let's say I have 2 SER servers (ser1 and ser2). Both save to the same MySQL > location table and both use t_replicate to let each other know about new > REGISTER's. Lets say ser1 gets a REGISTER from a client and then calls > t_replicate to send it over to ser2 and both call save("location"). Doesn't > that cause ser1 and ser2 to write the same record at about the same time to > MySQL? Is there any way to prevent doubling the number of database writes?
You can configure one of the ser's to do not use database at all for storing contacts, which will do what you want - contacts will be saved by the another ser, while t_replicate() will ensure that both of them have a whole set at any moment of time.
-Maxim
> > Does anyone know what the replicate column is for in the location table? > > ---------------------------------------- > > Michael Shuler, C.E.O. > BitWise Communications, Inc. (CLEC) And BitWise Systems, Inc. (ISP) > 682 High Point Lane > East Peoria, IL 61611 > Office: (217) 585-0357 > Cell: (309) 657-6365 > Fax: (309) 213-3500 > E-Mail: mike@bwsys.net > Customer Service: (877) 976-0711 > > _______________________________________________ > Serusers mailing list > serusers@lists.iptel.org > http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers > >
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