[Serusers] standalone voicemail config example

[Jiri Kuthan]

ok I see, I'm cc-ing the sems author, hopefuly you will get a response soon.

-jiri

At 02:25 AM 10/14/2003, Gavin Bensom wrote:
>Jiri,
> 
>You are correct. Everything is working except for the error messages, which concern me since I don't know why they're occuring or if they might cause instability.
> 
>I'll try the CVS version.
>
>Thanks,
>G.
>
>So I don't understand from your description -- is there anything what is not working except
>some error messages?
>
>>What I really need now is a way to deal with the timer issue. Jiri, I don't think I need multiple timers. I never want SER to timeout calls placed to the PSTN. I just want one timer which I can apply to selective transactions. 
>
>Well, there is _always_ a timer for every transaction and the timer has always
>the same value. The only thing which can be made distinctive is how this timer
>is handled.
>
>>Right now, the timer causes all calls to fail. I understand that I can change processing on failure, and I am doing this, but it would be very nice if the timer could be used only for specific transactions. I think this would involve setting it through a function call instead of a modparam call, but I don't know since I haven't actually looked at any code.
>
>The timer can't be removed -- it has a kind of "garbage collection" responsibility
>and a server without timers would run out of memory very quickly.
>
>What you could do is forwarding to gateway statelessly -- then, there would be
>indeed no timer involved. I don't think, that makes sense though for a couple
>of other reasons like accounting and/or tcp2udp forwarding.
>
>>I've also tried to just relay PSTN calls again (re-relay) through a failure route after the timer expires, but that doesn't seem to be working too well. Is this possible?
>
>What does it mean "it doesn't seem to be working too well"?
>
>Anyway, I think it really would not work -- it would end up
>canceling and re-ringing the PSTN destination, which is a kind
>of undesirable behviour.
>
>So in summary, I don't think there is an easy option for single-instance
>ser and multiple-timer. A really straight-forward option is support in
>SER.
>
>>Also, I think its not necessary to implement the "single-ser" config that is capable of running voicemail if this dual configuration works well. Of cource, the "single-ser" config would make it a little simpler for users.
>
>I would actually love to have it, it is just a problem of my time.
>
>-jiri 
>
>
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