No, that's a service, or at least I think it is, the sales garbage obscures what it really is so who knows.
What I need is a little box that diverts calls if the PBX goes down.
FYI, the topic has been discussed previously on the list, and the problem that you're trying to address is far more difficult that what you might think.
The issue is... how do you know when the pbx is down?
- machine is up, asterisk is down
- machine is up, asterisk is up but not responding - machine is down hard (somewhat easier to address)
Some of the previous postings noted using a relay to transfer t1's, pri's, etc, to a second machine; however, tripping the relay still requires some sort of watchdog timer that would sense inactivity. There is no code in asterisk to trigger that process today.
Dataprobe makes a range of A/B switches, some with more "intelligence" that you might be able to use in this scenario. One of their products (check out http://www.dataprobe.com/switch/ab_net.html) has a feature which pings a specific IP address, and switches over once it stops getting a response.
Some of their products are programmable too, where you can send TCP messages to initiate the switching process. Check out their website for more products.
Flynn
p/s I am in no way related to Dataprobe. This is just some stuff I received from them when asking a similar question on the list about six months ago.
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