How to Move a Node from one machine to another
if you are not going to use first-time.sh (and it's name derivatives) or, you are moving your ASL node to an existing Debian or Ubuntu machine; or, just want to do things some arbitrary way:
Do the following:
Copy the ENTIRE /etc/asterisk folder from the WORKING ASL node machine to:
- another Linux/Windows box for safe keeping,
- (and replace the existing) to your new node host ASL machine
perform side-by-side comparisons to make confirm correct file copy
restart asterisk
plug in the URI
restart asterisk again
check for errors in the Asterisk Console and /var/log/asterisk/messages. Logs sometimes appear in /etc/asterisk/messages
if:
you get this message: WARNING[23791]: chan_simpleusb.c:2149 setformat: Unable to re-open DSP device 2 (usb28569): No such file or directory
then:
echo snd_pcm_oss >>/etc/modules
and either
modprobe snd_pcm_oss
and check for /dev/dsp or reboot.
ls -la /dev/dsp
Credit belongs to N4IRS for the direct above commands.
if:
/dev/dsp is something like this:
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 May 15 18:49 /dev/dsp
then:
chmod 775 /dev/dsp
systemctl status
check to see if any process have failed
usually restarting Asterisk will cause the update node list service to fail.
In this case, you may see something such as:
State: degraded
Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 1 units
Now do:
systemctl --failed
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
● updatenodelist.service loaded failed failed AllStar NodeList updater
Then do this:
systemctl restart updatenodelist.service
if that does not work, then:
service updatenodelist restart
Those who read all the instructions:
- you must make absolutely sure all of the files you copied have the SAME permissions as on the working ASL node.
- you may have to either:
- use sudo if you put ASL Asterisk on a daily use machine that has a normal user, other than root or, you can just typersudo suinstead of prefixing all commands withsudo