What kind of hardware are you using in your setup? I'm using dell GX150 PIII 1G 512M, because I can get them in quantity and the parts are easily interchangeable
Thanks, David Ruggles CCNA MCSE (NT) CNA A+ Network Engineer Safe Data, Inc. (910) 285-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Edwards Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:21 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Call load balancing On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, David Ruggles wrote: > I've got a system I'm putting together to handle IVR calls with * > > I have one head system that terminates two PRIs. It routes the calls from > the PRIs to * boxes using IAX I'm planning on having four or five * boxes. > The * boxes run AGI scripts to process the IVR calls. Can I load balance the > routing if I have five calls each of the IVR * boxes gets two call and the > next call would go to the system that currently has the lowest number of > calls? Quick answer, yes. How is more interesting :) First, unless your AGI's are massive or incredibly inefficient, 2 PRI's won't swamp your IVR boxes. I have 3 1u servers each with 2 PRI's forwarding all 138 calls to a single "application server." All of the PRI's could be handled by 1 1u but management wanted flexibility and redundancy. The application server does IVR, conferencing, records messages, plays canned stories, credit card processing, etc, etc, etc. All implemented with a bunch of AGI's written in C. Each call executes a minimum of 9 AGI's and yes, some AGI consolidation is planned. All database work is handled by a separate box. Anyway, back to your question, how about your head system running an AGI that connects to the manager interface on the IVR boxes to find out how many calls each is currently processing? You could set a channel variable with the least busy host name and use that in your dial statement. If you passed the IVR host name list to the AGI, you could take a box out of service by editing and reloading your dialplan. Thanks in advance, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 _______________________________________________ --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 _______________________________________________ --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
