How about having the asterisk config on CF or USB drives and the OS,
Asterisk on a Linux LiveCD. That way you can mail out PBX upgrades
to the customer they pop it into the CD drive and reboot. Config
for DHCP boot, /etc/asterisk (or /etc entirely) on a USB dongle
would work great.
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:28:57PM -0400, Matthew Crocker wrote:
How about having the asterisk config on CF or USB drives and the OS,
Asterisk on a Linux LiveCD. That way you can mail out PBX upgrades
to the customer they pop it into the CD drive and reboot.
Actually, the minute they
99.999%
I suspect you will see this drop as traditional PBX'es start to use
commodity parts. My Mitel ICP 3300 has a Maxtor 10 gig hard drive in it
(same as an Xbox!)
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99.999%
I suspect you will see this drop as traditional PBX'es
start to use commodity parts. My Mitel ICP 3300 has a Maxtor
10 gig hard drive in it (same as an Xbox!)
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From: shadowym [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hm.that's interesting to know. I'll bet they boot from CF
Hi,
shadowym wrote:
I am looking at ways to harden my asterisk install to prevent computer
related issues from happening. I am concerned about about disk write cache.
That seems to be a major source of hard drive corruption on power failure.
Hard Drive corruption is simply unacceptable for the
These days you don't have to worry much about your write cache unless
you're running application where once single byte changed will affect
whole file.
Look at it this way, the only corruption will occur is whatever the
files were open by asterisk at the time of the crash. And only up to the
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Hard drive write cache
These days you don't have to worry much about your write
cache unless you're running application where once single
byte changed will affect whole file.
Look at it this way, the only corruption will occur is
whatever the files were open
shadowym wrote:
The cold hard truth is that if Asterisk cannot achieve 99.999% uptime
without becoming much more expensive that a traditional PBX then it is not a
viable alternative. Even elcheapo Key systems are rated for five nines.
Even massive redundant public exchanges struggle for
: [Asterisk-Users] Hard drive write cache
These days you don't have to worry much about your write
cache unless you're running application where once single
byte changed will affect whole file.
Look at it this way, the only corruption will occur is
whatever the files were open by asterisk
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If all you are worried about is the write cache on the disks,
why not just put the system on a UPS set to shutdown the
system in the event of power failure, then place both the UPS
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:36, shadowym wrote:
Physically locking down the server is not an option. It will be hung on
the wall in place of where a traditional PBX would normally go. This is a
telecom closet NOT a server rack environment. UPS with auto shut down is
just one link in the
way of thinking, Asterisk network appliance).
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If all you
[1] Ask any Norstar user how often Flash takes a big shit when it loses
power.
lol...snap! aaahhh the memories. Makes the Asterisk burn seem minor by
comparision.
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On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:36, shadowym wrote:
Physically locking down the server is not an option. It
will be hung
on the wall in place of where a traditional PBX
price.
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They have IDE and even some SATA (not easily available
The cold hard truth is that if Asterisk cannot achieve 99.999% uptime
without becoming much more expensive that a traditional PBX then it is
not
a
viable alternative. Even elcheapo Key systems are rated for five
nines.
That is what the telco world requires unless your just using Asterisk
in
Raid card with an onboard battery backup.
PaulH
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shadowym wrote:
I am looking at ways to harden my asterisk install to prevent computer
related issues from happening. I am concerned about
shadowym wrote:
Any other recommendations/links for increasing the reliability of Asterisk
servers?
Separate the various use cases of the filesystem into different volumes
with LVM. The parts that are not written to except during upgrades like
/usr should be mounted read-only, and the various
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