+1 - I've used SFTP for this in the past to push the config onto the server, verified it's valid XML and uploaded correctly with xmllint & md5sum, and then done reloadxml over ESL. You could either push from the central server or pull from the freeswitch ones (perhaps in a cronjob).

I've also heard of people storing their configs in git and doing a git clone into the appropriate directory on the servers. Then it's just 'git pull' + reloadxml (well, depending on the module - but that's all you need for dialplan changes).

You can also get FreeSWITCH to use wget to download the dialplan over HTTP. See https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_xml_curl#Alternative_ways_of_storing_static_configurations - I can't remember if exec actions work during a reloadxml though.

Truth is there's a million and one ways to get the file onto the server. :)

If the wget one works on reloadxml that would be the simplest I guess though. Might cause problems if there's any HTTP error though (500 Internal Server Error -> blank result -> no dialplan, whereas copying the file you can verify it before you reloadxml).

On 2 October 2013 21:31, Guillermo Ruiz Camauer <grcamauer@gmail.com> wrote:

How about a shared directory? Or rcp the files? You can have a program that writes the XML to the shared directory and then connect via ESL and execute a reloadxml as suggested by Callum above. This avoids any delays from http requests or maintaining a HTTP server. I guess it would depend on how many Freeswitch servers you are configuring this way, and how often you are changing the XML files.

Guillermo

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Vik Killa <vipkilla@gmail.com> wrote:

yeah something like that... i use nginx + php5-fpm to generate the XML though :)

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:53 PM, crazygabry <crazygabry@gmail.com> wrote:

So you suggest to have a server witch Apache that contains all dialplans,
directories and so on and let freeswitch ask to him while parsing xml right?

Thank you very much

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