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

Sat Sep 8 14:20:45 CEST 2012

ah more typos in email, sorry guys, i had a rough night and just wake up
half an hour ago. I hope you understand the point in email and won't ask me
to write it again. :)

Thank you.

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Muhammad Shahzad <shaheryarkh at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> 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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