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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER

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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
6
Building the User Portal with SerMyAdmin
Index

Common Mistakes


I will present now a list of several common mistakes made when using this material. I observed this in the classroom when teaching this material in Portuguese. For anyone interested in training please check the calendar at www.sermyadmin.org.

Daemon Does Not Start

This is very common. What you have to do is:

  1. First, run openser –c to check for syntax errors in the configuration file.

  2. Check /var/log/syslog for errors in the loading of modules.

This usually solves most problems.

Another common mistake is to start using the init script and try to stop using openserctl and vice versa. Please don't mess with the starting commands. Rule of thumb:

  • If you start using /etc/init.d/openser start, stop using /etc/init.d/openser stop.

  • In the other hand, if you start using openserctl start, stop using openserctl stop .

Client Unable to Register

This is by far the most common problem. Check the following things:

  1. Is your domain inserted in the domain table of the database? If you are using an IP address...