Failover voicemail server

[dknecht]

Currently my company has 12 offices + corporate office, each has its own IP 500 (a few have 406) with local voicemail pro server. We have a night auto attendant that includes an 'On Call' option.

I am trying to figure out how to have a failover voicemail server so that if the primary goes down for whatever reason, the secondary can at least serve up the auto attendant.

The closest thing I appear able to find is the Centralized voicemail which supports a failover - but with each office having its own voicemail server the infrastructure isn't really designed for it.

Is there any way to do this other than the centralized? Is there any way to have a "centralized" VM Server point initially to the local VM?

 

[tlpeter]

You can have distributed voicemail and a backup voicemail server from 6.0 or 6.1
But the servers itself must support smtp so Windows 7 is not an option.
Also you must enable IIS and SMTP before you install vmpro.
So it will be a big job to do but it is possible and supported to have more then one vmpro server in a SCN.


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[dknecht]

Sorry I forgot to mention, we are on 5.0. Is that possible on 5.0?

We actually have IIS installed on the VM Pro servers already, which are XP boxes. Though I do not know if it was installed prior to VM Pro or not.

 

[tlpeter]

XP has stmp on it.

You require an upgrade to at least 6.1 for this

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