[Freeswitch-dev] Core-UUID - is it possible to make it persistent?

[Michael Jerris]

We do something similar for zrtp already.  

Mike

On Jun 9, 2013, at 2:16 AM, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:

> is there a particular reason why it should change every time?
> 
> It's a UUID of the instance rather than the server (hostname is probably sufficient for that). That said there probably isn't a reason you couldn't set a persistent UUID yourself in a config file.
> 
> anyway to configure it to not change?
> 
> Currently no. It's generated anew on every start in switch_core.c:1701:switch_core_init()
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> It occurs after the switch.conf.xml file is loaded (line 1679) so it would be trivial to make a patch that reads it from that file and generates a random one if it hasn't been set in the config file.
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> It'd be more involved to generate a random one on the first startup that's then remembered on future startups. That should be possible too by caching it in a local file, as with freeswitch.serial.
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> -Steve
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> On 9 June 2013 05:03, Seven Du <dujinfang at gmail.com> wrote:
> As per http://www.mail-archive.com/freeswitch-dev@lists.freeswitch.org/msg02600.html
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> The Core-UUID changes every time FS restart, is there a particular reason why it should change every time?  anyway to configure it to not change? Or possible to add a Persistent-Core-UUID so it never changes when managing multiple FS instance at the same place?
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> Thanks.
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