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Trixbox Cluster (HA & DRDB 5*9 Solution with 2 Redfone Dual E1) automatic Failover for 300 Users

moe_70
Posts: 8
 Member Since:
2006-07-02
Submitted by moe_70 on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 6:30am.

Server Setup

base was trixbox 1.2.3 --> untrixed and updated Asterisk source
2 * HP DL380 Dual Proc 3GB Ram
2 * Red-fone Fonebridge2 Dual E1
300 * Grandstream GXP2000 & Few Grandstream ATA Adapters for Analog Polycom Conference phones

Customization on extension to fit enterprise environment
implementation of monitoring (nagios) / Fax on DID / Call conference bridging

the system handles around 2500 - 3500 calls per day
echo issues less then 1%
CPU less than 5%

every item is HA from Server to fonebride2 to Switch

for any question please do not hesitate to send me a mail

marcodc@mcsb.com

cheers ya all...
our next project is more than a 1000 Extension.. will update again

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Poud
Posts: 4
 Member Since:
2007-03-16
Info request
Tue, 05/08/2007 - 5:30am

Hello,

We currently check for a similar solution with a maximum of 350 users, with trixbox 2.x with HA and DRDB and we would like to exchange with you about your feedback, bug that you could have encountered, tweaking, and your recommadation.

My email address is : eric.poudrier@cogeco.com


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no1youknowz
Posts: 8
 Member Since:
2007-05-16
HA for Server & Trixbox
Wed, 05/16/2007 - 6:43am

Hi,

Could you document how you HA enabled trixbox? Would this relatively be done with heartbeat and drbd?

Thanks

Paul


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RF-Trixbox
Posts: 47
 Member Since:
2006-10-04
TrixBox-High Availability
Fri, 05/18/2007 - 11:27am

TrixBox-High Availability Tutorial.

This documents about 2/3 of the cluster implementation. The other 1/3 is probably with DRDB as you suggest;

http://www.red-fone.com/assets/documents/Trixbox_FB2_Heartbeat_Tu...

Good luck!


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petez69
Posts: 3
 Member Since:
2007-02-04
I've just setup a HA
Mon, 05/21/2007 - 4:25am

I've just setup a HA configuration of Asterisk 1.4.4

Using 2xDL360 servers with heartbeat and it works surprisingly well. These boxes are sitting in a rack talking to a Sun Box that handles our inbound/outbound calls. Currently if one server fails, we failover and start asterisk on teh 2nd box and I think the outage is around 10 seconds..... not bad at all !!

Pete


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moe_70
Posts: 8
 Member Since:
2006-07-02
Hi
Tue, 05/22/2007 - 2:32am

sorry for the late reply... did not get an email about your post
please forward me your questions to marcodc@mcsb.com we try to help ;)

cheers
Marco


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moe_70
Posts: 8
 Member Since:
2006-07-02
hi Paul
Tue, 05/22/2007 - 2:36am

sorry for the late reply
please check out the Redfone Tutorial on Trixbox and HA
you can find it here www.red-fone.com

if this will not help you can mail me at marcodc@mcsb.com
and we will try to help with issues

cheers
marco


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eyasterisk
Posts: 13
 Member Since:
2006-07-13
Clustering issue
Sat, 05/26/2007 - 2:44am

Hi,
I have two asterisk servers clustered together using heartbeat and Redfone.But when we tried to register using the Virtual IP of this clustered servers with another remote asterisk through IAX trunk,it fails.IAX2 show registry output is "registration failed'.But its working fine if we change the virtual IP to any of the cluster servers IP.Any idea to resolve this issue?

Cheers
EY


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JasonR
Posts: 345
 Member Since:
2006-05-31
EY - what's in your
Sat, 05/26/2007 - 5:48pm

EY - what's in your /etc/asterisk/iax.conf for the "bindaddr" setting? Perhaps you're binding to the IP of the machine rather than the 'floating' one, or 0.0.0.0 (all available)?

- Jason

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eyasterisk
Posts: 13
 Member Since:
2006-07-13
Bind adress
Fri, 11/09/2007 - 8:26pm

The bind adress is 0.0.0.0 in iax.conf...I tried number of ways still the issue persists


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mudslide
Posts: 48
 Member Since:
2006-08-24
change your bind address in
Tue, 01/22/2008 - 3:31pm

change your bind address in sip and iax to the floating address. it will work. binding to 0.0.0.0
cause the server to receive the registration request on the floating address but reply on the fixed address, causing the failure. annoying bug.


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SkykingOH
Posts: 9541
 Member Since:
2007-12-17
Heartbeat packets routeable
Fri, 02/08/2008 - 8:21am

Reading the document with interest. Are the heartbeat packets TCP and fully routeable. Would like to have the two servers at seperate locations for GEO redundancy.

We already have multiple PSTN gateways and SIP trunking, outbound route diversity is covered.

Thanks.

Scott

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Scott

aka "Skyking"


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gianthobbit
Posts: 39
 Member Since:
2007-03-19
Asterisk settings?
Wed, 03/05/2008 - 8:17pm

I would love to hear about information regarding the Asterisk PBX portion of the HA setup? I don't know what configuration settings to put into the trunks, outbound and inbound routes with the Redfone Fonebridge2 device. Maybe the settings are easy but I'm a newbie at the IP telephony subject.

Any help that you can provide is greatly appreciated!


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joshelson
Posts: 244
 Member Since:
2006-12-07
HA is transparent to Asterisk...
Wed, 05/28/2008 - 1:58pm

The HA portion of the setup is essentially transparent to Asterisk - you configure trunks, routes, etc exactly as you would in a single server configuration (this is an active/passive clustering method). The data replication, using DRBD network RAID 1, is transparent to Asterisk itself. Depending on your configuration, you may need to change your bindaddr in the SIP / IAX configuration files to be your floating IP address.

If you use the fonebridge, you will need to rerun the "fonulator" utility with a slightly different redfone.conf configuration every time the cluster changes active nodes. This would be done in the haresources file.

This may help you with a better part of the config:

http://trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/ha-clust...

Josh

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