I've been evaluating Asterisk for a while, and things seem to be going very well. The issue of redundancy and automatic fail-over is now on my mind. I searched the archives and googled for solutions, but didn't really come up with much.
We'll be using queues (modified), which precludes some of the standard redundancy solutions, since the queue needs to know all the agents and calls to effectively decide what to do. (Correct me if I'm wrong as to distributing queues.) As far as I can tell, I need to be able to fail over to a backup server. What's the best way to go about this? Obviously one can just have the clients re-connect to the new server, but with 50 machines, that can be a major pain. Both could have the same network, and just swap network cables and re-login. One could log into both and the second wouldn't send calls to the agent unless it got calls from the main switch in the event of failure. I'm sure there other solutions. I've come across other products like Ranch Networks (their web site is rather uninformative, although it seems promising) and Redfone's foneBRIDGE (which seems it may help.) I'll be using Sangoma cards on the Asterisk box, if that matters. Does anyone have experience they'd like to share on effective ways to do this? -Norman _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
