### Configuration in extconfig.conf

You configure the ARA in extconfig.conf (yes, it's a strange name, but is was defined in the early days of the realtime architecture and kind of stuck).

The part of Asterisk that connects to the ARA use a well defined family name to find the proper database driver. The syntax is easy:

        <family> => <realtime driver>,<db name>[,<table>]

The options following the realtime driver identified depends on the driver.

Defined well-known family names are:

- sippeers, sipusers - SIP peers and users
- iaxpeers, iaxusers - IAX2 peers and users
- voicemail - Voicemail accounts
- queues - Queues
- queue_members - Queue members
- extensions - Realtime extensions (switch)

Voicemail storage with the support of ODBC described in file docs/odbcstorage.tex (11.1).