[Serusers] Asterisk and SER

[Chris St Denis]

1. I believe asterisk will need a public IP because the RTP data will be
going directly from the (I'm assuming external) client to it. Ser will only
touch the SIP. If you are using media proxy (which I have not yet done) then
asterisk can probably work on private.

2. SER can also authenticate from database. The table and column names are
customizable in the ser config file so it shouldn't be a problem to share
with asterisk realtime however the registration table will not be shareable.

3. All calls would go through SER. Only those that require features would
hit the asterisk feature server. SER has its own accounting system that
isn't directly compatible with asterisk. You would need to use a ser
accounting system. I *think* ser can do dns srv based load balancing and it
can do failover in the dial plan. Asterisk sharing a dialplan can be done by
sharing a file system (nfs of /etc/asterisk), copying files between the
servers, or pointing at the same database with realtime.


-----Original Message-----
From: serusers-bounces at iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces at lists.iptel.org]On
Behalf Of Ronald Wiplinger
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:41 AM
To: serusers at lists.iptel.org
Subject: [Serusers] Asterisk and SER


I read about SER and I have installed Asterisk on one machine.
Unfortunately this machine is broken and the replacement will take
longer as I wished.

I have a P-4, 1GHz with 1 GB RAM, which was planned to be used as SER
anyway. I would like to use this downtime of the Asterisk box to install
SER.

I understand that SER and Asterisk can work together, while SER makes
connection, Asterisk will add features.
How do I do that efficiently?

1. SER needs a public IP, does then Asterisk need a pulic IP, or can it
just be on the internal LAN?

2. Now the password for each phone is made in the SIP and IAX config
files. How can I do that than in SER? If I use reatime, can I use the
same database?

3. A user can make a phone call to the users on our system (Asterisk
domain) and via gateways. We use ASTCC for billing. How can I use this
together with SER.
I am not sure if I understand it correct, but would for internal calls
(calls without features) be handeled directly from SER, while if the
user need a feature, than he would be transfered to Asterisk? How can I
setup multiple Asterisk boxes with one SER, but all Asterisk machines
share the same dial plan (realtime)

I wanted to read more first, but the down time of my * forces me to do a
SER setup faster, so that my users can quickly (by office hours Monday)
at least make internal calls.

Any hint is welcome ;-)


bye

Ronald

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