[Users] Converting from SER to OpenSER

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Brian,

indeed, from scripting point of view, openser 1.0.0 is still reasonable 
compatible ser 0.9.x. You may find that some things got easier to be 
done due the pseudo-variable support and their interaction with AVPs.

Regarding DB transition - I would say only the format of the 
location/aliases table (used by usrloc) were affected -  new column 
"socket" was added (a short look on the table format in 
scripts/mysqldb.sh will be useful); also do not forget to update the 
version of these tables!

So, adding a new column and changing their versions will do it.

for more about the differences, see
    http://openser.org/diffs-0.9.0.php
    http://www.openser.org/release-1.0.0.php

regards,
bogdan

Brian McCrary wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am currently using SER 0.9.4 in a production environment.  I've
>patched it with various modules that OpenSER has, but would like to
>convert over to the OpenSER project to be able to use a lot of the new
>functionality. I've comiled the latest CVS source (the main release has
>Solaris compile problems that have been fixed in CVS, hence the CVS
>source).  
>
>The process doesn't look too difficult, a few things to be changed in
>the config file, namely break and return.  However, I'm not sure what's
>the best way to convert the MySQL tables over.  
>
>My tables now are in the ser database instead of the openser.  I
>imagine I could duplicate the ser database into one called openser, and
>perhaps run the openser_mysql reinstall script to upgrade.  
>
>I've looked and can't really find any documentation on converting over,
>so if anyone that has done this conversion before has any ideas or what
>to expect I'd appreciate it.  My goal would be to have openser run on a
>test server, but be able to access my production MySQL server, but using
>a unique database name (openser instead of ser) so I can iron out the
>config file, and everything else.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brian
>
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