From a3a7672808fd6926c878b9803d8749bde9be91e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Bryant Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:20:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 106186 via svnmerge from https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk ........ r106186 | mvanbaak | 2008-03-05 15:19:06 -0600 (Wed, 05 Mar 2008) | 7 lines document var_metric usage to prevent bugreports that are actually configuration issues (closes issue #12151) Reported by: caio1982 Patches: DB_metric3.diff uploaded by caio1982 (license 22) ........ git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.6.0@106315 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3 --- doc/tex/realtime.tex | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/tex/realtime.tex b/doc/tex/realtime.tex index 62349f60c8..26f937e878 100644 --- a/doc/tex/realtime.tex +++ b/doc/tex/realtime.tex @@ -39,6 +39,20 @@ modules that read configurations, there's no difference between a static file in the file system, like extensions.conf, and a configuration loaded from a database. +You just have to always make sure the var\_metric values are properly set and +ordered as you expect in your database server if you're using the static mode +with ARA (either sequentially or with the same var\_metric value for everybody). + +If you have an option that depends on another one in a given configuration +file (i.e, 'musiconhold' depending on 'agent' from agents.conf) but their +var\_metric are not sequential you'll probably get default values being assigned for +those options instead of the desired ones. You can still use the same +var\_metric for all entries in your DB, just make sure the entries +are recorded in an order that does not break the option dependency. + +That doesn't happen when you use a static file in the file system. Although +this might be interpreted as a bug or limitation, it is not. + \subsubsection{Realtime SIP friends} The SIP realtime objects are users and peers that are loaded in memory