Deployment Notes

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• 1 Multiple FreeSWITCH Instances in One Box
  • 1.1 Different Base Directories
    • 1.1.1 Instance A
      • 1.1.2 Instance B
  • 1.2 Same Base Directories
    • 1.2.1 Instance A
      • 1.2.2 Instance B
• 2 FIFO on a clustered FreeSWITCH environment

Multiple FreeSWITCH Instances in One Box

Different Base Directories

Follow the Installation Guide twice:

Instance A

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/instance_a/

Instance B

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/instance_b/

Same Base Directories

Follow the Installation Guide without doing anything special, and then

Instance A

Start instance A with

/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -conf /a/conf -log /a/log -db /a/db

Instance B

Start instance B with

/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -conf /b/conf -log /b/log -db /b/db

FIFO on a clustered FreeSWITCH environment

FreeSWITCH does not share the state of FIFO across multiple instances, therefore, the PARK function should be used instead of FIFO within a FreeSWITCH clustered. One way to implement it is this: When an agent is ready to take call, use PARK to park the channel in one or more dedicated "agent"-instance of FreeSWITCH. Then, using the event socket, you can capture where the agent is parked on, and possibily store it in a persistence storage. When a caller arrives, you can determine which agent should serve this caller and forward the caller to the specific "agent"-instance where the agent is parked on.