[OpenSIPS-Users] Realtime monitoring of registered end-points

[Ionut Ionita]

Did you set natping_interval? If you don't set this parameter, natpings 
won't
be enabled?

Ionut Ionita
OpenSIPS Developer

On 02/18/2016 03:37 PM, Dragomir Haralambiev wrote:
> I can't "Sipping_flag". I have "sipping_bflag". This is part of 
> my script:
>
> modparam("nathelper", "sipping_bflag", "SIP_PING_BFLAG")
>
> route {
> ....
> setbflag(SIP_PING_BFLAG);
> .....
>
> }
>
> 2016-02-18 14:56 GMT+02:00 Ionut Ionita <ionutionita at opensips.org 
> <mailto:ionutionita at opensips.org>>:
>
>     Sipping_flag must also be set, because matching pings when they
>     return can be
>     done only if using SIP pings. Did you set it?
>
>     Ionut Ionita
>     OpenSIPS Developer
>
>     On 02/17/2016 02:56 PM, Dragomir Haralambiev wrote:
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     I try to setup realtime monitoring.
>>     Here is part of my script:
>>
>>     loadmodule "nathelper.so"
>>     modparam("nathelper", "remove_on_timeout_bflag", "RM_ONTO_FLAG")
>>     modparam("nathelper", "ping_threshold", 5)
>>     .......
>>
>>     route {
>>     .........
>>     setbflag(RM_ONTO_FLAG);
>>     .........
>>     }
>>
>>     From location tableI (cflags) I see  "RM_ONTO_FLAG"
>>     Unplug Internet connection from registered endpoint.
>>
>>     Opensips send sipping. Received "Destination unreachable (Port
>>     unreachable)".
>>
>>     Record in location table is not deleted.
>>
>>     Where is problem?
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Dragomir
>>
>>
>>     2015-10-01 11:33 GMT+03:00 Ionut Ionita <ionutionita at opensips.org
>>     <mailto:ionutionita at opensips.org>>:
>>
>>         *Hello all,
>>
>>             I’m glad to announce a new feature that allows OpenSIPS
>>         to monitor
>>         (via SIP OPTIONS probing) and disable/delete in realtime the
>>         registrations
>>         which are not responding.
>>             The previous approach had two issues when came to so
>>         called “zombie”
>>         registrations (registrations which are not valid anymore):
>>             * resources - such zombie registrations may waste
>>         resources in your
>>         OpenSIPS server (memory,  processing time, DB space, useless
>>         NAT pinging,
>>         TCP connect attempts);
>>             * user experience - using the zombie registration to
>>         reach un-existing
>>         users translates into useless calls (calls that will simply
>>         timeout),
>>         giving delays in the call setup (instead of going straight to
>>         VM, you may
>>         burn 5-10 seconds in trying to reach the user);
>>             The main idea  behind these features is to delete
>>         contacts that do not
>>         respond to a certain number of SIP pings. The SIP pinging is
>>         provided by the
>>         nathelper module which was enhanced to keep the state of each
>>         pinging requests
>>         (basically, the module is waiting and checking the reply of
>>         each SIP request
>>         sent to the registered users). For registrations detected as
>>         “dead” (not responding),
>>         the nathelper module interacts directly with the usrloc
>>         module in order to
>>         remove the zombie contact.
>>             For usage perspective, the nathelper module now has two
>>         new parameters:
>>             * ping_threshold - timeout to consider a ping as unanswered;
>>             * max_pings_lost - the number of unresponded pings after
>>         which the contact is
>>         removed from usrloc;
>>             In order to activate this feature, every contact must
>>         have the sipping_bflag
>>         (to be pinged) and remove_on_timeout_bflag (to be deleted on
>>         no-answer) activated.
>>         This means these flags must also be configured in the
>>         nathelper module. [0]
>>             For full documentation of the nathelper module including
>>         the newly added
>>         feature see [1]. Any feedback is highly appreciated.
>>
>>         Regards,
>>         Ionut Ionita
>>
>>         [0]http://www.opensips.org/html/docs/modules/2.2.x/nathelper.html#id248011
>>         [1]http://www.opensips.org/html/docs/modules/2.2.x/nathelper.html
>>         *
>>
>>         _______________________________________________
>>         Users mailing list
>>         Users at lists.opensips.org <mailto:Users at lists.opensips.org>
>>         http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     _______________________________________________
>>     Users mailing list
>>     Users at lists.opensips.org <mailto:Users at lists.opensips.org>
>>     http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Users mailing list
>     Users at lists.opensips.org <mailto:Users at lists.opensips.org>
>     http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users at lists.opensips.org
> http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.opensips.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20160218/a0e73f0e/attachment.htm>