[SR-Users] 503 on DB Error

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 12/12/11 10:49 AM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> 12 dec 2011 kl. 10:33 skrev Daniel-Constantin Mierla:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 12/10/11 11:36 AM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>>> 9 dec 2011 kl. 18:54 skrev Spencer Thomason:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> Is it possible to configure Kamailio to reply to a request with a 503 if it cannot connect to a necessary database for the operation?
>>>>
>>>> I.e.  Kamailio cannot connect to the database, when a REGISTER comes in and userloc can't find the credentials (due to DB failure), respond with a 503.  The requesting endpoint can then fail over properly.  The same behaviour would be desired for other modules as well, i.e. aliasdb.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I noticed using 3.1.5 that it simply does not authorize the user.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I have been thinking about this as well. We could implement a db_ping function so we could test in the routing script before
>>> calling functions that use the DB. It's harder with stuff that happens in the background, like ACC and SIPTRACE. I don't know
>>> what happens with them if the database fails.
>> one option would be to set a config env variable, like db_error, which is set by the db modules on error. Then can be checked in the config and act accordingly. This will require touching the db modules.
>>
>> Alternative is to propagate some return codes up to config file, but this will require changes in all modules interacting with database, including the db modules.
> Great. I think a db_ping which forces a test, a db_status variable that shows the result of the last database operation is a good start.
yes, db_ping() is good for interaction from config file. I thought of 
db_status more for the other functions that use db behind (like auth_db).

I wonder if each sql server has this ping capability -- mysql lib offers 
mysql_ping() (which is used in db_mysql module), iirc, postgress has as 
well although not used in db_postgres (afaik). If all, ping function may 
be exported via db interface and offered to config from sqlops, where is 
easy to provide connection id.

When ping is not offered by library, then maybe never fail query like 
'select count(*) from version' can be used - this should be usable even 
now with sqlops.

Cheers,
Daniel

>
> The return code stuff is a more long term issue. I'll try to allocate time to see if I can get somewhere with these two. If I need help, this list will now :-)
>
> /O
> _______________________________________________
> SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list
> sr-users at lists.sip-router.org
> http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users

-- 
Daniel-Constantin Mierla -- http://www.asipto.com
http://linkedin.com/in/miconda -- http://twitter.com/miconda