[OpenSIPS-Users] Can load balancer show total number of call for a gateway

Sat Sep 8 14:15:43 CEST 2012

sorry for typo, in last paragraph i meant "inbound group" not outbound
group.

Thank you.

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Muhammad Shahzad <shaheryarkh at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> Well, i would recommend as an easy alternative is to use permissions
> module. You have two types of calls pass through opensips, so you create
> two address permissions group, one for inbound (opensips to gw) and one for
> outbound (gw to opensips). The outbound group should match your gw ips,
> while inbound should match all except your gw ips. So when a call comes
> into opensips, you can match its source address "$si" against permissions
> table, which will tell you whether its type is inbound or outbound and then
> you can increment appropriate script variable for your reporting purpose
> etc.
>
> If you want to get deeper to known call counts at gateway level, e.g. how
> many calls each gateway has, then you can subgroup inbound group in
> permissions module such that $si would match exactly one gateway and you
> can update that gateway count for your reporting purpose.
>
> For outbound group, after calling load_balance function you will have $dd
> variable ($dp for port) which specifies the destination gateway where the
> call will go, you can use it to update that gateway's call count and so on.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:52 AM, SamyGo <govoiper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ali,
>>
>> Well first of I felt a bit reluctant to reply after reading your reply to
>> Binan...didn't want to hear something like that for anyone on the list
>> which I am part of. Neither I wish us to continue this thing further in
>> this thread.
>>
>> Ok coming back to the concern, I only know that dispatcher module has
>> something like grp_avp modparam, which after selecting a destination
>> gateway sets its group-id in that avp.
>>
>> If DB query is not required then possible options limit to using the
>> memcache/redis for storing contents of Load-balancer table and doing a
>> redis based query. Other option is use FIFO/MI_XMLRPC stuff from a perl
>> script and have it return to you the group-id of the input gateway address.
>> Then call the perl script in your config. That won't be as much of a
>> overhead compared to DB query.
>>
>> BR
>> Sammy
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Ali Pey <alipey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sammy,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your response and it is a very good suggestion. I'm sorry
>>> if you felt I was criticizing it.
>>>
>>> I know there is a way to increase the number of active call for the load
>>> balancer module:
>>>
>>> set_dlg_profile("lbXchannel","server_id)");
>>>
>>> I just don't know how I can get the server_id which is the load_balancer
>>> table index without doing a DB query.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Ali
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, SamyGo <govoiper at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Didn't understand you clearly.
>>>>
>>>> When you define a size i.e calls=100 per gateway and you send a call
>>>> from opensips to that gateway its load becomes 1, and capacity obviously
>>>> becomes calls=99. Now, When you gateway sends call back and you increment
>>>> its call count variable $avp(IC_GW1) to 1 AND immediately resize the
>>>> capacity like calls = calls - 1; The capacity of your gateway become
>>>> calls=98.
>>>>
>>>> On hangup of that Incoming call from gateway you resize the capacity
>>>> back.
>>>>
>>>> Using Dialog module profiling you can do it easily.
>>>>
>>>> And as per my understanding of your question this is what you wanted. I
>>>> am not sure if there is any clean way of doing this w/o going into the
>>>> load_balancer module code and editing it as per your requirement which will
>>>> be something like : Link the load_balancer module with the dialog module.
>>>> Create a modparam like "gw_incoming_call_monitor"= 1 | 0. if its set to 1,
>>>> internally tell dialog module to count the active incoming calls of each
>>>> load-balancer gateway and adjust the gateway's "load". I don't think this
>>>> is much of a big task.
>>>>
>>>> Do spare me sir if you didn't like it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sammy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Ali Pey <alipey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sammy,
>>>>>
>>>>> I rather to be able to see the through number of active calls on a
>>>>> server than re-sizing the capacity of each server twice for each call. That
>>>>> will create a mess.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Ali Pey
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:02 PM, SamyGo <govoiper at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Ali,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No , I said it dialog based profiling of each gateway's incoming
>>>>>> calls to opensips. Store the call counter for each gateway in any variable,
>>>>>> I named it $avp(IC_GW1).
>>>>>> Next is use this:
>>>>>> http://www.opensips.org/html/docs/modules/1.8.x/load_balancer.html#id250348
>>>>>> Resize a particular gateway's capacity using simple maths.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Sammy
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Muhammad Shahzad <
>>>>>> shaheryarkh at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you give more info about your topology, I think everybody is
>>>>>>> considering following topology,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> caller -> opensips -> gateway -> opensips -> destination
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which means call enter opensips twice, once for leg A and once for
>>>>>>> leg B. Is that what you have? If yes, then do you want to count leg A and
>>>>>>> leg B for each call?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Ali Pey <alipey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Binan,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sometimes I wish you would read the question before trying to
>>>>>>>> answer. If you don't have an answer, you don't need to come up with one. No
>>>>>>>> body is forcing you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1- First of all, how is this related to load balancer modules? As
>>>>>>>> you can see the title of email is talking about the load balancer module.
>>>>>>>> 2- All my GW IP addresses are in the database, I don't want to list
>>>>>>>> them in my config file and evey time these is s change I would have to
>>>>>>>> change the config file and restart the service.
>>>>>>>> 3- I need a solution that would integrate with load balacer module
>>>>>>>> and/or the dialog module so I can use the MI commands and it would be
>>>>>>>> automatic. What you are saying here doesn't have a real world practice.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Ali
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Binan AL Halabi <
>>>>>>>> binanalhalabi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> $si* - reference to IP source address of the message
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  if ($si==GW1-IP-ADDRESS) {
>>>>>>>>>      # Incoming call
>>>>>>>>>      # Increment $avp(IC_GW1)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  }
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> //Binan
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --- On *Thu, 9/6/12, SamyGo <govoiper at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> From: SamyGo <govoiper at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [OpenSIPS-Users] Can load balancer show total number
>>>>>>>>> of call for a gateway
>>>>>>>>> To: "OpenSIPS users mailling list" <users at lists.opensips.org>
>>>>>>>>> Date: Thursday, September 6, 2012, 10:25 PM
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Ali,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> AFAIK you can't do this from Load-balancer, but the possible
>>>>>>>>> solution is use variable $avp(IC_GW1) for each gateway to count the
>>>>>>>>> incoming calls from particular gateways (Dialogue module based profiling)
>>>>>>>>> and then see how many calls a gateway has Incoming/Outgoing from/to a
>>>>>>>>> particular gateway.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The real deal is to communicate the populated incoming calls
>>>>>>>>> variable to the load-balancer module. (Dynamically increment/decrement a
>>>>>>>>> g/w capacity based on the $avp(IC_GW1) )
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BR
>>>>>>>>> Sammy
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Ali Pey <alipey at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=alipey@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Let's say I have a sip trunk with 100 channels. The calls come in
>>>>>>>>> and are distributed to 4 gateways through the load_balancer module. Load
>>>>>>>>> balancer module can show all active call going to the gateways but not the
>>>>>>>>> call originated from the gateways to a sip trunk.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If there are outgoing calls from the gateways to the sip trunks,
>>>>>>>>> those will not be accounted for on the load balancer module. Basically load
>>>>>>>>> balancer can keep account for number of active calls on one direction.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is there a way that I can see the total number of active calls on
>>>>>>>>> a gateway (both incoming and outgoing) through the load balancer module?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>> Ali Pey
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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