Asterisk Realtime – Flat files to DBMS May 24, 2007
Posted by ieniall in Asterisk.2 comments
Asterisk Realtime is a set of drivers and tools that enable, developers mainly, to move the static Asterisk configuration files (normally kept in /etc/asterisk) into databases such as MySQL. It comes in too flavours “Static and Dymanic Realtime”.
Firstly, putting Static and the word “RealTime” in the same sentence is probably technically incorrect, however the two methods of enabled RealTime are quite different. With dymanic realtime, users and extensions can be added on the fly without reloading Asterisk. Within the T.S.S.G. we are looking into methods of allowing multiple people access the same PBX while delivering common services. Dynamic realtime seems to do exactly what we want. Static on the other hand requires a reload when a change is made, if its an urgent change calls will be dropped on the PBX.
Realtime has one major flaw in my opinion, its incapacity to handle the ” include => context ” dialplan logic code. However, we are currently looking into a work around using mySQL and func_ODBC. More on that later …..
Digium have posted a “patch” on the matter, however we are going to use the Vanilla Version of Asterisk ( 1.4.2 )
Working with func_odbc May 24, 2007
Posted by epower in func_odbc.add a comment
There comes a time with Asterisk, when you encounter a problem which can’t be solved with clever dial plan logic but you don’t want to wheel out AGI just yet. Over the next while, I’ll be posting some work I’ll be doing with ‘func_odbc’, a handy little feature of Asterisk that lets you query databases using SQL templates and ODBC.
First Post May 24, 2007
Posted by voiptssg in Asterisk.1 comment so far
This blog is mainly aimed at people in the T.S.S.G at the Waterford Institute of Technology. Its written by a group of people interested in VoIP,Networks and the Open Source Telephony Platform Asterisk.
