[Freeswitch-users] Best practice for centralized user registration database

Emrah lists at kavun.ch
Sat Jun 15 19:50:44 MSD 2013


Hi William,

Do you know where I can find the documentation for using PGSQL to store configs, especially user directory entries?

Thanks!
On Jun 12, 2013, at 12:51 PM, William King <william.king at quentustech.com> wrote:

> mod_xml_ldap is on a list to be rewritten. Currently there are 3 main
> ways to solve this issue: mod_xml_curl, or mod_xml_radius or direct
> pgsql access. There is another method that involves (re)generating the
> static xml files, then calling reloadxml.
> 
> William King
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> On 06/12/2013 09:01 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
>> I'd use LDAP. Unfortunetly mod_ldap does not look as if it is being
>> maintained, and from the looks of it the module needs a rewrite. So, use
>> your new/existing openLDAP server (every company should have), and there
>> are plenty of PHP examples on the interwebs to create a connector so FS
>> can talk to the database via XML (you could use mod_xml_curl on FS side). 
>> 
>> It's a lot of work, but it's worth doing. 
>> 
>> - BDF
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Brian Foster
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>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com
>> <mailto:steveayre at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> From within FS for ODBC this is probably best practice:
>> 
>>    http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Lua_freeswitch_dbh#User_Directory_XML
>> 
>>    Being Lua means it's very easy to customise the queries / results.
>> 
>>    -Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>    On 12 June 2013 14:51, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com
>>    <mailto:steveayre at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>        Most people are probably using XML curl. It's very flexible and
>>        can scale quite well since you can point it at a load balanced
>>        farm of servers.
>> 
>>        There's also a LDAP module if you're that way inclined. I don't
>>        think there's a module that'll talk directly to a ODBC database
>>        right now.
>> 
>>        As far as the API goes check the contrib repository - there are
>>        some examples in there you could 'borrow'.
>> 
>>        -Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>        On 12 June 2013 12:33, Emrah <lists at kavun.ch
>>        <mailto:lists at kavun.ch>> wrote:
>> 
>>            Hi all,
>> 
>>            What is the best practice today to handle users directory
>>            dynamically through a database, ideally PostgreSQL or MySQL?
>>            I'm kind of concerned by what I've seen so far in the
>>            available documentation. Do I really have to write an API to
>>            serve data from a DB to FreeSwitch?
>>            How about monitoring registration states?
>> 
>>            My goal is simple. I would like to have multiple FS
>>            instances share the same users directory and be able to tell
>>            on which server the client has registered.
>> 
>>            Your help would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>>            Thanks,
>>            E
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