[Kamailio-Users] log_facility usage with accounting module

[Henning Westerholt]

On Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2009, Örn Arnarson wrote:
> I am trying to get all billing information from the acc module logged
> to a file as opposed to a database.
> It seems to me that the way to do that is via syslog (although I'd
> much prefer just logging directly to a file).
>
> So, to do this, i added a LOCAL6 facility in /etc/syslog.conf, and
> added the following line to kamailio.cfg:
> modparam("acc", "log_facility", "LOG_LOCAL6")
>
> The general log_facility of kamailio is LOG_LOCAL7:
> log_facility=LOG_LOCAL7
>
> These are the only two mentions of LOG_LOCAL6 and LOG_LOCAL7 in the
> whole configuration file. However, I get _all_ the information in both
> files (that is, if I have debug set to a specific level, my accounting
> log also gets flooded with these debug messages).

Hi Örn,

probably your syslog configuration is not correct in this case. Check 
syslog.conf if its contains the necessary logic to separate the LOCAL_6 
content to another file.

> Why is this? The config line specifies LOG_LOCAL6 to be a log for the
> accounting module...
>
> Furthermore, I want all INVITES to be logged, regardless of an ACK or
> CANCEL, but only invites where an ACC is received are logged. If I
> enable log cancel, I see the CANCEL messages, but not the INVITES,
> which is rather nonsensical.

Do you set the failed_transaction flag as well? If you set this it should also 
account the failed INVITEs i think.

Henning
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