Probably we should put this information somewhere in the wiki, for now here is sort of short presentation for each:

1) kamctl and kamdbctl are related, both being shell scripts (developed over the time from the old serctl/openserctl), the first is for interacting with a kamailio instances, the second is only for creating (and managing) the database structure needed by kamailio

2) kamcmd is practically only a binary rpc client that interacts with ctl module from kamailio -- this was developed by SER project during 2005-2008 (when we were separately)

3) kamcli is written in Python and aims to become a (better) alternative to kamctl (and kamdbctl), with a plugin like architecture to extend it with new subcommands, more flexibility (e.g., modules/libs from python that can be used) and better error handling

For example, adding a new subcommand for kamcli means adding a python script inside commands folder. This comes handy if you have a kamailio installation using a custom database table that you access via sqlops -- with few lines of python script you can add a subcommand to manage its records (add/remove/update), doing validation of the values with python expressions to avoid inserting invalid records...

Another nice feature of kamcli vs kamctl is the ability to choose the format for output -- e.g., jsonrpc response can be presented in a compact form as yaml instead of json.

Overall, kamctl and kamdbctl are part of kamailio source tree and packaged inside kamailio debs/rpms, likely to stay so, no plans to replace/remove them, at least in the near future.

kamcli is a separate repository (https://github.com/kamailio/kamcli) and it is going to have its own deb/rpm file (actually Victor already built the deb package, available via deb.kamailio.org repositories).

Cheers,
Daniel

On 16.10.18 15:41, Samuel F. wrote:

Great and thank you!

Is there a writeup on how these tools differ and what one should use?

kamcmd

kamcli

kamctl

kamdbctl

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Subject: [SR-Users] kamcli v1.1.0 released

Hello,

kamcli tool just got its first official release, a step forward in the
process of packaging it.

It is a command line tool that aims to be a modern alternative to the
venerable kamctl, being written in Python and having already a large set
of implemented sub-commands, such as:

* subscriber – manage SIP subscribers
* ul – manage user location records
* address – manage permissions address records
* aliasdb – manage database aliases
* db – manage kamailio database content
* dialog – manage active calls (dialog)
* dialplan – manage dialplan records
* dispatcher – manage load balancer (dispatcher)
* group – manage group membership records (acl)
* moni – continuous refresh of the values for a list of statistics
* mtree – manage memory trees (mtree)
* ps – print the details for kamailio running processes
* rpc – interact with kamailio via jsonrpc control commands (alias of
jsonrpc)
* rpcmethods – return the list of available RPC methods (commands)
* speeddial – manage speed dial records
* srv – server management commands (sockets, aliases, …)
* stats – get kamailio internal statistics
* tls – management commands for TLS profiles and connections
* uptime – print the uptime for kamailio instance

The news article for this release is available at:

* https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kamailio.org%2Fw%2F2018%2F10%2Fkamcli-v1-1-0-released%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfed7a25d71b24b0796fe08d6333e2a8d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636752739421479581&sdata=e%2B3CSXIFa1ka08nYWWm%2FhI9Jwu4QBOmZbyu3KQ5m64s%3D&reserved=0

The corresponding tag in the github repository being:

* https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fkamailio%2Fkamcli%2Freleases%2Ftag%2Fv1.1.0&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfed7a25d71b24b0796fe08d6333e2a8d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636752739421479581&sdata=pJsL8bSsrFoOiOXhBH1RVtySl03Oa958ErORwhfGXbU%3D&reserved=0

How to install kamcli and examples of usage can be found at:

* https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fkamailio%2Fkamcli%2Fblob%2Fv1.1%2FREADME.md&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfed7a25d71b24b0796fe08d6333e2a8d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636752739421479581&sdata=C5O%2FD7ahjlVmoNexzZ0yziOhSwR%2BNzP7UHeoSMZUtF0%3D&reserved=0

Cheers,
Daniel

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