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[oza.4h07 at gmail.com]

Hello,


I'm setting up an active-passive Asterisk solution on Debian Jessie platforms.

I'm using heartbeat package.


As I'm not yet familiar with either systemd or heartbeat, I've got a couple of questions:


1. At the moment, I'm using /usr/share/heartbeat/hb_standby or /usr/share/heartbeat/hb_takeover scripts to both :
- allocate "floating" IP addresses to active server

- start/stop asterisk daemon.


Is this appropriate ? What would you recommand instead ?



2. My /etc/ha.d/haresources file contains:

machine1 192.168.1.3 asterisk


With this, I can see that asterisk daemon is correctly started and stopped when hb_standby/hb_takeover commands are typed but "service asterisk,status" is a bit misleading with:

service asterisk status
● asterisk.service - LSB: Asterisk PBX
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/asterisk)
   Active: active (exited) since lun. 2015-10-19 18:02:58 CEST; 41min ago
  Process: 19576 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/asterisk stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 19583 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/asterisk start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

How can I best improve this and configure heartbeat to use "service asterisk start/stop" ?


Regards

[support at telium.ca]

If you’re still in the planning stage, there’s a lot more to think about.  Your Asterisk failure detection will be very simplistic (is the process dead).  Synchronization of data – without risking synchronization of corrupt data to a peer.  Prevent a deteriorating/failing peer corruption from corrupted the other peer (i.e. now shared resources).  Awareness of upstream (e.g.: route/network) failures making the peer unavailable – and how to detect that.  Etc. etc.

Here’s a good checklist of things to consider in your design:  http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+High+Availability+Design

If you are building a small/home office HA then the free version of commercial tools may be the way to go.  If have a $0 budget but for a larger installation, use the design guide above to help figure out which compromises to make.  (Heartbeat / Linux HA is better than nothing).

-M-

[oza.4h07 at gmail.com]

2015-10-19 22:05 GMT+02:00 Telium Technical Support <support@telium.ca (support@telium.ca)>:

[oza.4h07 at gmail.com]

My machines have both a /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/asterisk file (from resource-agents package, it seems).

If I'm not mistaken, this file is not run when asterisk is started/stopped by hb_standby/hb_takeover commands (I added a touch /tmp/foobar line in /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/asterisk to check this).


How does this script compare with rc.debian.asterisk that can be found in contrib/init.d directory ?

Is this file maintained by Asterisk community and closely following Asterisk evolution or is it rather independant from Asterisk development team ?

What would you recommend on this subject ?



2015-10-19 20:11 GMT+02:00 Olivier <oza.4h07@gmail.com (oza.4h07@gmail.com)>: