[Serusers] PSTN guard

[Klaus Darilion]

Nikola Stojanoski wrote:
> Thanks Klaus for your answer but what i wanted is to get the cdr's from 
> accounting module from SER so is mediaproxy sending messages BYE or 
> CANCEL to SER after that idle time or it's just closing the session and 

It only closes the session. (maybe there is a commercail version which 
also sends a BYE)

> logs into it's own logfiles? It is going to be more easy if SER is 
> getting some signaling from mediaproxy because if the mediaproxy is 
> doing separate logging i will need to check 2 databases and make some 
> hard calculations.

If the gateway is also under your control, just use the CDRs from the 
GW. Much easier und more accurate. If not, put Asterisk inbetween. It's 
not a nice solution but it works.

regards
Klaus

> As i've seen on the newest verion of mediaproxy accounting is not 
> included into the free package and i don't realy need codectype etc. i 
> just want to have call duration so i can calculate price.
> 
> Regards
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Klaus Darilion" 
> <klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at>
> To: "Nikola Stojanoski" <nikola at intrafon.com>
> Cc: <serusers at lists.iptel.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Serusers] PSTN guard
> 
> 
>> Nikola Stojanoski wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to setup PSTN gateway for termination and i would like to 
>>> use SER as a guard + to collect CDR's. but my consurn is the BYE 
>>> messages i don't know how many failed BYE messages i'll get in 
>>> realtime operation because i can't get correct cdr's without BYE.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to use mediaproxy rtp timeout so when i don't receive 
>>> BYE i the call will be terminated let's say in 30 sec. What kind of 
>>> message does mediaproxy send after that idle time CANCEL?
>>
>>
>> per default mediaproxy logs to syslog. You can also log to db, but I 
>> never used it.
>>
>> regards
>> klaus
>>
>>>
>>> And what is better way to do billing? Set cron to check balance on 5 
>>> min. or to use exec module and do mysql query after every BYE or 
>>> CANCEL message? Using cron will make me lose maximum of 5 min. * 
>>> number of PSTN lines and with query after every call i will lose only 
>>> charge for active calls.
>>>
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