I'm trying to stay away from a software based load balancer cause what happens if that server fails? Its far less likely for a piece of dedicated hardware to fail than an actual computer.
-Matthew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Loree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: load balancing 20 asterisk servers > > How about a management server that polls the asterisk servers every > minute with snmp to check cpu and ram cache, maybe even drive space. > Then you could have a script decide whether the server can handle > anymore connections. > > I am still a beginner so I am not sure how you could have asterisk > delegate calls to other servers. > would a redirect transfer remove the management server from the loop? > > using loadbalancer? > http://www.vovida.org/applications/downloads/loadbalancer/ > > these are just ideas I am tossing out here for you. > > Kyle > > On Feb 2, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > > > Operating systems and probably a lot of devices *cache* the results of > > DNS lookups. That means removing A records won't do any good. > > > > Short story: No matter what network service is being balanced, if you > > want to guard against failure and against customers noticing that > > failure use a real load balancing solution, DDNS is not suitable. > > > > jens > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
