[OpenSIPS-Users] radius SQL accounting of failed calls

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Adrian,

Thank you !

Regards,
Bogdan

Adrian Georgescu wrote:
> 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 
>>> <mailto: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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