[OpenSIPS-Users] radius SQL accounting of failed calls

[Adrian Georgescu]

Bogdan

The patch is here:

http://download.ag-projects.com/CDRTool/contrib/

Adrian


On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> Could you point me the FREERADIUS patch you are talking about? just to
> take a look and maybe push the discussion to a developer from Free  
> Radius.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Bogdan
>
> Jeff Pyle wrote:
>> Hi Bogdan,
>>
>> That makes sense to me.  In fact, that seemed to be the central  
>> point of the
>> argument against using a STOP record for a failed call:  "You can't  
>> STOP
>> what never STARTed in the first place."  Perhaps the argument from  
>> the other
>> side is that one must take a unique identifier into consideration?   
>> I cannot
>> claim to understand the implications yet.  I started playing with  
>> radius
>> accounting only last week.  :)
>>
>> Thankfully, the patch buried within the contrib directory of  
>> CDRTool applied
>> well against freeradius-server-2.1.3.  Failed calls from OpenSIPS  
>> now cause
>> SQL records to be inserted.  Inspecting the inserted records,  
>> however, I
>> don't see anything indicating whether it was a START, STOP, or  
>> FAILED at the
>> radius level.  Perhaps the only indicator is the session time?  I'm  
>> still
>> investigating.
>>
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/15/08 6:36 AM, "Bogdan-Andrei Iancu" <bogdan at voice-system.ro>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> OpenSIPS is still sending the FAILED values for the missed calls.  
>>> From
>>> ACC point of view, you have two cases - A) established calls
>>> (START+STOP) and B) failed calls (FAILED).
>>>
>>> If you use the STOP also for the failed calls, wouldn't be a  
>>> confusion
>>> in between the STOP of an ongoing call and the STOP of a failed  
>>> call?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bogdan
>>>
>>> Jeff Pyle wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> It seems there was a long thread some time back about using the
>>>> so-called non-standard ³Acct-Status-Type = Failed² in the radius
>>>> packet. The two proposed solutions seemed to be 1) use a Stop type
>>>> instead of Failed, or 2) patch Freeradius.
>>>>
>>>> Since I¹m still seeing the Failed type in the radius detail file,  
>>>> it
>>>> appears OpenSIPS didn¹t change to Stop.
>>>>
>>>> So, anyone know of a patch for current Freeradius sources?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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