[SR-Users] Re: How to check for presence of a file from a route? (Or any other way to tell kamailio not to accept new calls)

Hi I'm still looking for a better way to tell Kamailio that we want to enter 'maintenance' and STAY in maintenance after a restart. Maintenance is: Reject all messages without totag with 503 to prevent creating new dialogues. I could use a shared pv and the use kamcmd pv.shvSet to toggle it. But when kamailio is restarted, that pv is also reset to it's initial state. Not good, if I want to make sure the node stays in maintenance mode after a restart as for example after pushing a config change via ansible. So what comes to my mind is to check for the presence of a file. something like: route[CHECK_MAINTENANCE] { if (!has_totag() && is_method("INVITE")) { if (file_exist("/etc/kamailio/maintenance.flag")) { xlog("L_ERR", "Maintenance flag present! Rejecting INVITE\n"); t_send_reply("503", "Maintenance mode - no new calls accepted"); exit; } } }