[Users] Question regarding redundancy/load balancing

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 09/09/05 23:49, Dave wrote:

> Hello all:
> I would like to install two OpenSer servers, two database servers and 
> a few  mediaproxies. I want to achieve some level of redundancy. I 
> have the following thoughts:
> 1) user DNS SRV records and this way I can do some load balancing. But 
> my question is once a UA registers with one OpenSer server, how can I 
> ensure that all future requests for SIP signalling will go the the 
> same OpenSer server? What if the UA again does a DNS query before 
> sending an INVITE and goes to a different OpenSer Server?

you have to use record-routing (see rr module), thus all subsequent 
messages within a dialog will follow same path.

> Also how can I ensure that incoming INVITE requests will come to the 
> UA from the "other" OpenSer server?

The two proxies must work with same user location database (see 
t_replicate() from tm module).

>  
> 2) How do I handle the two database servers? If each DB server is 
> connected to one OpenSer server, how do I ensure that what gets 
> written to one DB is also written to the second database? Or is there 
> some other way?

OpenSER keeps the user location database in memory, so you have to 
synchronize them (via _replicate()). Also, the database systems have 
some replication mechanisms built-in.

Daniel

>  
> I did go thru old postings on SER/OpenSER but although a lot has been 
> discussed, no clear solution has been proposed.
>  
> Any other pointers or thoughts will be highly appreciated.
>  
> Dave
>
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