SIP in higher education

[Steve Blair <>]

 Right. This is kinda what I meant in my earlier message. Say you
have the SRV yale.edu defined with CSPS first then SER. For the
backup_proxy to work you'd need to define an SRV with SER
first and CSPS second in the ordering. Maybe call it yalecc.edu
(Yale Community College) :-)



Jeremy George wrote:

> Hey Candace,
>
>   Right, so that's what I did, test.  in SIPDefault.cnf I have primary,
> backup and outbound all defined.  CSPS fails (is shut down.)  The backup
> is there for incoming calls which is routed to by the gateway's hunt
> group.  Works well.  The problem is that there isn't a backup outbound
> proxy parameter.
>
>   Reconfiguring phones via NOTIFY would certainly work but it would
> have to be done manually and doesn't seem like much of a solution.
>
> - Jeremy
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Candace Holman wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:42:00 -0500
> > From: Candace Holman 
> > <>
> > To: Jeremy George 
> > <>,
> >  
> >
> > Subject: Re: [sip.edu] Backup proxies
> >
> > There are a few proxy settings: Backup Proxy, Emergency Proxy, and 
> > some others.  I don't know how well this works for automatic backup, 
> > but it would be worth a test.
> >
> > In the SIPDefault.cnf, SIP<mac>.cnf files you can add proxy_backup, 
> > proxy_emergency, etc.  Or you can hardcode on the phone itself.
> >
> > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps2156/products_administration_guide_chapter09186a00801d1977.html 
> >
> >
> > Candace
> >
> > At 11:41 AM 2/4/2005, Jeremy George wrote:
> >
> >
> > >   I have Cisco's CSPS v2.2 configured as the primary proxy and 
> > > Iptel.org's
> > > SER v0.8.14 configured as a backup proxy.  I'm using Cisco 79XX phones
> > > configured for those servers and using CSPS as an outbound proxy.
> > > Additionally I have a Cisco 37?5 gateway configured to use a hunt group
> > > inbound from the PSTN, preferring CSPS and then trying SER.
> > >
> > >   Testing the failover this morning by shutting off CSPS showed that
> > > inbound calls went immediately to SER without missing a beat.  The
> > > biggest problem might be that I could lose my primary proxy without
> > > knowing it.
> > >
> > >   However, outbound calls seem to require manual re-configuration on
> > > the phones.  Is this right?  Does anyone know of a way to get 79XXs
> > > to failover the outbound proxy automatically to a backup?
> > >
> > > - Jeremy

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