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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Flavio E. Goncalves, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Flavio E. Goncalves, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu

Overview of this book

OpenSIPS is a multifunctional, multipurpose signalling SIP server. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is nowadays the most important VoIP protocol and OpenSIPS is the open source leader in VoIP platforms based on SIP. OpenSIPS is used to set up SIP Proxy servers. The purpose of these servers is to receive, examine, and classify SIP requests. The whole telecommunication industry is changing to an IP environment, and telephony as we know it today will completely change in less than ten years. SIP is the protocol leading this disruptive revolution and it is one of the main protocols on next generation networks. While a VoIP provider is not the only kind of SIP infrastructure created using OpenSIPS, it is certainly one of the most difficult to implement. This book will give you a competitive edge by helping you to create a SIP infrastructure capable of handling tens of thousands of subscribers. Starting with an introduction to SIP and OpenSIPS, you will begin by installing and configuring OpenSIPS. You will be introduced to OpenSIPS Scripting language and OpenSIPS Routing concepts, followed by comprehensive coverage of Subscriber Management. Next, you will learn to install, configure, and customize the OpenSIPS control panel and explore dialplans and routing. You will discover how to manage the dialog module, accounting, NATTraversal, and other new SIP services. The final chapters of the book are dedicated to troubleshooting tools, SIP security, and advanced scenarios including TCP/TLS support, load balancing, asynchronous processing, and more. A fictional VoIP provider is used to explain OpenSIPS and by the end of the book, you will have a simple but complete system to run a VoIP provider.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The opensipsctl shell script


The opensipsctl utility is a shell script installed in /sbin. (The path depends on the installation prefix.) It is used to manage OpensSIPS from the command line. It can be used to perform the following functions:

  • Start, stop, and restart OpenSIPS

  • Show, grant, and revoke ACLs
Add, remove, and list aliases

  • Add, remove, and configure an AVP

  • Manage a Low Cost Route (LCR)

  • Manage a Remote Party Identity (RPID)

  • Add, remove, and list subscribers

  • Add, remove, and show the usrloc table in-Random Access Memory (RAM)

  • Monitor OpenSIPS

We will learn several of its options in the next chapters. The following is the output of the opensipsctl help command:

Configuring the opensipsctl utility

To configure opensipsctl, you have to edit the resource file, opensipsctlrc. This script is found in /etc/opensips. It is parsed by the opensipsctl utility to configure the database authentication and communication parameters. Usually, it uses the FIFO mechanism to send commands to the OpenSIPS daemon...