I read about SER and I have installed Asterisk on one machine. Unfortunately this machine is broken and the replacement will take longer as I wished.
I have a P-4, 1GHz with 1 GB RAM, which was planned to be used as SER anyway. I would like to use this downtime of the Asterisk box to install SER.
I understand that SER and Asterisk can work together, while SER makes connection, Asterisk will add features. How do I do that efficiently?
1. SER needs a public IP, does then Asterisk need a pulic IP, or can it just be on the internal LAN?
2. Now the password for each phone is made in the SIP and IAX config files. How can I do that than in SER? If I use reatime, can I use the same database?
3. A user can make a phone call to the users on our system (Asterisk domain) and via gateways. We use ASTCC for billing. How can I use this together with SER. I am not sure if I understand it correct, but would for internal calls (calls without features) be handeled directly from SER, while if the user need a feature, than he would be transfered to Asterisk? How can I setup multiple Asterisk boxes with one SER, but all Asterisk machines share the same dial plan (realtime)
I wanted to read more first, but the down time of my * forces me to do a SER setup faster, so that my users can quickly (by office hours Monday) at least make internal calls.
Any hint is welcome ;-)
bye
Ronald
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Asterisk can be put on private, not that I have ever done that Realtime from asterisk will let you pull the info, but the format it stores it in, I think is different from that what SER uses, cause realtime really just ports the conf file into the DB. SER would handle the external if you want to use astcc you could, by getting all traffic to go via ser into asterisk, as long as astcc looked up the acc info from SER, although if the call was then passed into asterisk I am sure asterisk would also have a record. Same dialplan, lots of asterisk, havent tried it, but realtime might be an option, (on a side note, have u manged to get voicemail to work with realtime)...I cant seem to pull the info from the DB, whereas from flat file its fine.
Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I read about SER and I have installed Asterisk on one machine. Unfortunately this machine is broken and the replacement will take longer as I wished.
I have a P-4, 1GHz with 1 GB RAM, which was planned to be used as SER anyway. I would like to use this downtime of the Asterisk box to install SER.
I understand that SER and Asterisk can work together, while SER makes connection, Asterisk will add features. How do I do that efficiently?
- SER needs a public IP, does then Asterisk need a pulic IP, or can
it just be on the internal LAN?
- Now the password for each phone is made in the SIP and IAX config
files. How can I do that than in SER? If I use reatime, can I use the same database?
- A user can make a phone call to the users on our system (Asterisk
domain) and via gateways. We use ASTCC for billing. How can I use this together with SER. I am not sure if I understand it correct, but would for internal calls (calls without features) be handeled directly from SER, while if the user need a feature, than he would be transfered to Asterisk? How can I setup multiple Asterisk boxes with one SER, but all Asterisk machines share the same dial plan (realtime)
I wanted to read more first, but the down time of my * forces me to do a SER setup faster, so that my users can quickly (by office hours Monday) at least make internal calls.
Any hint is welcome ;-)
bye
Ronald
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1. I believe asterisk will need a public IP because the RTP data will be going directly from the (I'm assuming external) client to it. Ser will only touch the SIP. If you are using media proxy (which I have not yet done) then asterisk can probably work on private.
2. SER can also authenticate from database. The table and column names are customizable in the ser config file so it shouldn't be a problem to share with asterisk realtime however the registration table will not be shareable.
3. All calls would go through SER. Only those that require features would hit the asterisk feature server. SER has its own accounting system that isn't directly compatible with asterisk. You would need to use a ser accounting system. I *think* ser can do dns srv based load balancing and it can do failover in the dial plan. Asterisk sharing a dialplan can be done by sharing a file system (nfs of /etc/asterisk), copying files between the servers, or pointing at the same database with realtime.
-----Original Message----- From: serusers-bounces@iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces@lists.iptel.org]On Behalf Of Ronald Wiplinger Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:41 AM To: serusers@lists.iptel.org Subject: [Serusers] Asterisk and SER
I read about SER and I have installed Asterisk on one machine. Unfortunately this machine is broken and the replacement will take longer as I wished.
I have a P-4, 1GHz with 1 GB RAM, which was planned to be used as SER anyway. I would like to use this downtime of the Asterisk box to install SER.
I understand that SER and Asterisk can work together, while SER makes connection, Asterisk will add features. How do I do that efficiently?
1. SER needs a public IP, does then Asterisk need a pulic IP, or can it just be on the internal LAN?
2. Now the password for each phone is made in the SIP and IAX config files. How can I do that than in SER? If I use reatime, can I use the same database?
3. A user can make a phone call to the users on our system (Asterisk domain) and via gateways. We use ASTCC for billing. How can I use this together with SER. I am not sure if I understand it correct, but would for internal calls (calls without features) be handeled directly from SER, while if the user need a feature, than he would be transfered to Asterisk? How can I setup multiple Asterisk boxes with one SER, but all Asterisk machines share the same dial plan (realtime)
I wanted to read more first, but the down time of my * forces me to do a SER setup faster, so that my users can quickly (by office hours Monday) at least make internal calls.
Any hint is welcome ;-)
bye
Ronald
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