[SR-Users] Simple Kamailio configuration for Asterisk load balancing?

[Alex Balashov]

On 07/05/2016 04:57 PM, Tickling Contest wrote:

> Thanks for your note, Alex, but asking for a reasonable admin is hardly
> presumptuous; indeed saying that it is presumptuous is very
> questionable. I have had to do that myself having designed telco
> architecture and products in painful (SW) detail for over a decade now,
> and I have seen boxes far more complex and less complex all of which
> need OAM (invariably GUI based) which the customer won't touch without.
> We all have different ways by which we use products...

Right. The presumption here is precisely in the fact that Kamailio is 
that kind of product.

Kamailio is not a finished application like Asterisk or Freeswitch 
where, if you just enable the right option and configure it real quick, 
you'll get canned functionality. I always say it's more akin to an SDK; 
it's got some building blocks, but it's up to you to wire them together. 
Above all else, it's an intra-industrial toolkit for communications 
specialists; it's not designed for end-customers or even ordinary 
operations departments, so your point about the necessity of a GUI for 
those people doesn't apply.

For obvious reasons related to mindshare and "market share", there are 
efforts to make Kamailio more accessible to a larger audience of people 
with relatively pedestrian needs. For that, there exists, for example, 
the SIREMIS GUI:

http://siremis.asipto.com/

This UI can edit the underlying database tables that back modules like 
dispatcher and usrloc/registrar, and can also expose some Kamailio 
operational stats.

However, SIREMIS will certainly not write the logic so that you can 
build large-scale HA infrastructure without having to learn anything. :-)

-- Alex

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