[Freeswitch-users] FS Best practices

[Tim St. Pierre]

I think there are advantages, at least from a functionality standpoint.

If you have a cluster setup, the core DB can be shared across FS machines.  This gives each machine
access to things like presence, voice mail counts and settings, and the mod_limit counts can be
global, as opposed to per-machine numbers.  This is handy if you want to enforce a channel count for
 a customer.  You can also share SIP registrations across the cluster.  I haven't tried this too
much yet, but it should be possible for a phone to register to machine A.  If machine B needs to
send a call to the phone, it has the contact data and can send the call to the phone directly (as
long as there are no NAT issues here).  I don't know how often each machine polls the DB for
presence information.  There might be a lag for things like BLF lamps across the cluster, although I
think there is another way to solve that.

You can also access the data in the DB with your PHP scripts for status monitoring and other useful
things.  I have heard that altering this data is a bad idea, but running queries on it can be handy.
   You can make a nice web dashboard that will give you all registered endpoints, current SIP
dialogs, channel counts (via mod_limit), voice mail counts, etc.  By accessing the voice mail
tables, you can also make an XML "visual voicemail" interface for phones like the Aastra 55i and 57i.

Hope that's helpful.

-Tim

Fraser Redmond wrote:
> Is there any advantage at all to putting the core database on your own
> external db? Or is it just a control freak thing? I was looking at this
> the other day, and only ever read that it was possible, not anything
> about why you'd want to do it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Fraser
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org
> <mailto:brian at freeswitch.org>> wrote:
> 
>      Its really up to you it works both ways.  But I would recommend a
>     dedicated network for interconnection and management and not run
>     that over the public/sip facing interfaces.
> 
>     /b
> 
>     On Mar 18, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Todd wrote:
> 
>>     Thanks folks!  I believe we will be doing most of our coding in
>>     php.  We are also going to have independent DB servers…. I was
>>     also wondering if putting the FS database on a DB server is a god
>>     idea, or if it should be left on the FS box.  ‘Preciate it yall. 
>>     Learning is phun
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