[Serusers] SIP Express Bundle - let's get started

Greger V. Teigre greger at teigre.com
Mon Dec 10 07:25:28 CET 2007


[removed sems, semsdev, and serdev from cc]

I have updated the project page with:
- all the suggestions for what we have to install
- team members
http://www.iptel.org/sip_express_bundle_sip_service_in_15_minutes
g-)

Jai Rangi wrote:
> Wow, Great, Seems the balling is rolling forward and there is great 
> feedback from every one.
> 1. Just want to confirm that I am in.
> 2. I would also vote for CentOS and vmware.
> 3. How about sipp, which can be a good performance testing tool.
> 4. I hope we will be using latest release (or at least 2nst last 
> stable release) of kernel, mysql, apache, php, perl etc. The reason I 
> mentioned this is that, serweb had issues with Apache 2.x and php 5.x.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jai
>
>
>
> On Dec 9, 2007 8:23 PM, ram <talk2ram at gmail.com 
> <mailto:talk2ram at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Dec 9, 2007 6:30 PM, SIP <sip at arcdiv.com
>     <mailto:sip at arcdiv.com>> wrote:
>
>         Greger V. Teigre wrote:
>         > Hi guys, thanks a bunch for lots of input and I really
>         appreciate the
>         > willingness to contribute.
>         > Thus, I have created a "project page":
>         >
>         http://www.iptel.org/sip_express_bundle_sip_service_in_15_minutes
>         >
>         > I thought we could gather the current perspective on that
>         page and
>         > document our decisions as we go. It will hopefully be useful
>         in our
>         > process, as well as documentation for us and others later.
>         >
>         > I have noted the following volunteers:
>         > Jai: testing and installation work
>         > ram: testing
>
>      
>     yes iam there.
>
>
>         > SIP: tesing
>         > Jiri: anyting?
>         > Mike: testing and documentation
>         >
>         > Maybe we should set up a small mailing list for coordination
>         emails,
>         > but for now, let's use serusers (where I think all the
>         comments came).
>         > (I copy the other lists on this post, so the other lists
>         know that the
>         > discussion will move to serusers).
>         >
>         > Out of the comments, I read CentOS and vmware as the most wanted
>         > combination. I have documented the pros and cons on the
>         project page,
>         > and suggest that we do some testing before we decide. I also
>         tried out
>         > rpath (which I have no previous experience with). My
>         observations are
>         > documented on the same page.
>         >
>         > Thus, I have started setting up a minimal CentOS virtual
>         appliance
>         > found in vmware's appliance directory on an esx server. I
>         will send
>         > details on accessing it to the volunteers once it is up and
>         running
>         > (decompressing, unpacking, and building a non-split disk
>         takes an
>         > awful lot of time :-( ).
>         >
>
>      
>     CENTOS will be good idea.
>      
>
>
>         > Ok, further comments, ideas, etc, please post to serusers or
>         edit/add
>         > comments to the project page (requires an iptel.org
>         <http://iptel.org/> account).  I see
>         > the following steps with documentation as we go (steps also
>         found on
>         > the project page):
>         > 1. Testing and specification of what we want to accomplish
>         > 2. Environment and OS setup to ensure that we easily can
>         release new
>         > versions
>         > 3. Installation and configuration of the software. I assume
>         this step
>         > also will involve development of some tools we need, as well as
>         > adaptation of existing stuff
>         > 4. Testing and user documentation
>         > 5. Packaging and deployment
>         >Something I noted about the project.  While I am all for a
>         virtual image
>         for testing purposes and getting things up and running while we're
>         creating this project, I think the ultimate goal should be
>         something
>         like an ISO that's ready to go on a server. There are many of
>         us in the
>         systems world who have not bought into the whole virtualisation
>         marketing gimmick when it comes to system deployment, and for
>         the casual
>         home user who's less comfortable with using VMs for an actual
>         production
>         system (which is, to be honest, a lot of people), it might be
>         easier in
>         the long term to get everything the way we want it and then
>         make an ISO
>         that's ready to drop onto whatever machine with all the
>         components we need.
>
>         BUT... first things first. :) We need a list of everything
>         that's going
>         to be in this bundle.
>
>      
>     yes , we need to look at common man and make this installation process
>     and to be menu driven, while installation going on.
>      
>
>
>         My assumptions are (at the basic level):
>
>         -SER 2.0 (in whatever state it's in atm)
>         -SERWeb
>         -RTPProxy
>         -SEMS
>
>      
>     we need to look at Media proxy also as a base, since it has some
>     monitoring tools.
>
>
>         Secondary (but no less important) items that are a must-have:
>         -MySQL (I'm voting for 5 series here, but that will require my
>         patch for
>         the mysql code in SER 2.0)
>         -Apache (req'd for SERweb)
>         -SIPsak
>         -ngrep (invaluable for debugging as well as learning)
>
>      
>     yes all the tools needed
>      
>
>
>         Optional:
>         -mediaproxy
>         -freeradius
>         -radiusclient (for those who want to mesh SER with an existing
>         radius
>         infrastructure perhaps)
>
>      
>     yes for the accurate billing we need to consider Radius
>      
>
>
>
>         Thoughts?
>
>      
>      
>     we also need to look at modular solution.
>     and documentation for the same.
>      
>     Like each service in one server.
>      
>     ram
>
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