[SR-Users] Quick way to enable/disable all uac outbound registrations

[Joel Serrano]

Absolutely! I’ll test and report back.

Thanks Daniel!

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 03:12 Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> just pushed a patch to allow enabling/disabling registration feature for
> all records at ones:
>
>   -
> https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/commit/49f354276df3cfc2cdb0f85b5a1839f86733aead
>
> I haven't tested it yet, maybe you get a chance to give it a try and
> report the results.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> On 13.08.18 21:23, Joel Serrano wrote:
>
> Hi Henning,
>
> Yes, it would be for the HA setup.
>
> So for example, say we have (I'm making it up):
>
> modparam("uac", "reg_start_disabled", 1)   ## This tells uac module to
> start with all records in `uacreg` table disabled.
>
> 1- Start kamailio on both nodes (no registrations are sent by any node).
>
> 2- Start keepalived on both nodes, some tests are done, the VIP is enabled
> on one of the nodes (MASTER). Keepalived would then run a script that would
> effectively enable all registrations (looping through all the records in
> the uacreg table doing a `kamctl rpc uac.reg_enable ...` or a future
> possible `kamctl rpc uac.reg_enable_all` :P).
>
> That way, only the active node would be proactively sending the outbound
> registrations.
>
> I don't see any of this a problem, as right now both are sending
> registrations using the same "Contact:", so any incoming requests will be
> directed to the active kamailio. This is just to keep things tidy and not
> have 2 servers sending outbound registrations when it isn't strictly
> necessary.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Joel.
>
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> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Henning Westerholt <hw at kamailio.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Am Montag, 13. August 2018, 07:23:10 CEST schrieb Joel Serrano:
>> > Thanks for your suggestions. For now I'll give a try your approach #1.
>> >
>> > Couple extra doubts:
>> >
>> > 1- do you think an expiry of say 60s is too low? or is it reasonable? (I
>> > know it will depend a lot on the number of records in database, but in
>> this
>> > case it's very little, like ~50 or so).
>> > 2- can I set uac module to initialize without sending any REGISTER
>> requests
>> > ("start with all records in database disabled")? If answer is no, then
>> my
>> > idea would be to set uacreg colum reg_delay to say 10s or so to give
>> time
>> > to kamailio to startup, and than have an external script manually
>> disable
>> > them before the delay expires. What do you think?
>> > [..]
>>
>> Hello Joel,
>>
>> 60s is indeed low. I saw some reports of people use something like this
>> in NAT
>> settings, but I'd suggest for something between 2-3 minutes. This gives
>> you a
>> bit more room for eventual errors during a restart or something like this.
>>
>> About the second question - I just did a quick check in the code. It
>> seems
>> that the uac module is reading during child_init the DB records, and
>> there is
>> currently no setting to disable this.
>> But I did not fully understand the rationale behind this question, is
>> this for
>> your high-availability setup or something like this?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Henning
>>
>> --
>> Henning Westerholt
>> https://skalatan.de/blog/
>>
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