On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 10:02 +0100, Steve Davies wrote: > On 20 May 2011 16:16, Ishfaq Malik <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 10:58 -0400, Leif Madsen wrote: > >> On 11-05-20 09:37 AM, Ishfaq Malik wrote: > >> > Do many people use this? > >> > Is it reliable and safe? > >> > >> It may still work, but that code is quite old, and I'm not even sure it's > >> necessary any more. > >> > >> Leif. > >> > > I use astmanproxy with Asterisk 1.6.2.18 - It works fine. The most > recent version is on Github, and is not that old. In fact that reminds > me that I really must upload my latest changes to my github fork of > the project! > > > The reasons I'm considering it are as follows: > > Building a web page which uses AJAX to get information from the AMI > > every 10-30 seconds or so and not wanting to log on and off via AMI that > > many times. > > > > We'll soon be using multiple asterisk servers so having a single point > > of access would be very useful. > > Astmanproxy does seem to offer that, but it is not a feature I've used. > > > I'd love for you to elaborate on why it's not necessary any more, is > > there something simple I've overlooked? > > - I run asterisk in high-priority mode, meaning that every AMI > connection gets a "high priority socket" - Astmanproxy runs at a > normal priority - That just feels like a nicer thing to be doing :) > > - If a client fails to read its net socket fast enough, it affects > astmanproxy, and not asterisk with the backlog.. Again, that just > feels like a better way to do it. > > - Astmanproxy offers filtering, which can be used to either reduce > load on the client, to present information about a single > device/channel only, or as a sanity layer to block or fix-up invalid > requests by a client. > > Hope that helps. > Steve >
Cheers guys. Although now I'm back to square on about whether to use AJAM or AstManProxy :( Ish -- Ishfaq Malik Software Developer PackNet Ltd Office: 0161 660 3062 -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
