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Looking for the fastest way for setting up your OpenSIPS instance?

1.  OpenSIPS installation

Go for the OpenSIPS install instructions - this is a link directly to the INSTALL file from the SVN repository, which contains the up-to-date version.

The INSTALL file provides information about:

1. . Supported Architectures and Requirements
2. . Howto Build openser From Source Distribution
3. . Quick-Start Installation Guide
   1. ) Getting Help
   2. ) Disclaimers
   3. ) Quick Start
   4. ) OpenSER with Persistent Data Storage
4. . Troubleshooting

NOTE that the above file will help only for setting up OpenSIPS and not for how to configure or use it. If you are looking for such documentation, please see the Documentation section of the site.

2.  OpenSIPS Console (osipsconsole) installation

osipsconsole is a console like utility for provisioning OpenSIPS. It is to replace opensipsctl and opensipsdbctl.

osipsconsole is available only starting with OpenSIPS version 1.5.0 .

2.1 Perl requirements

For the osipsconsole tool the following perl modules are needed:

• DBI
• DBD::mysql
• DBD::Pg
• DBD::Oracle
• BerkeleyDB
• Frontier::RPC2

2.2  Debian/Ubuntu Installation

In order for the script to work, there are listed bellow the modules needed and their debian package correspondent, a brief description of each package and whether it is mandatory to install it or not. ( To be mentioned the fact that these packages have been tested in Debian and Ubuntu distros. )

Install these packages using apt-get:

apt-get install perl libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbd-pg-perl libfrontier-rpc-perl libterm-readline-gnu-perl libberkeleydb-perl

NOTE: * at the user's choice. At least one of the packages is mandatory, depending on the DB type used by OpenSIPS. The other ones have no need of being installed.

Creating your own Debian packages for CPAN libriaries

As many Debian users probably don't really like to install modules the CPAN way, here how to achieve the desired effect following "the Debian way":

 apt-get install dh-make-perl

Usually running

 dh-make-perl --build --cpan DBD-Whatever

should be enough. For CPAN libraries where this doesn't work please try as follows:

wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/.../DBD-Whatever-1.0.tar.gz
tar xfz DBD-Whatever-1.0.tar.gz
dh-make-perl DBD-Whatever-1.0/
cd DBD-Whatever-1.0

Adjust files in the newly created debian folder to fit your needs (if required) and build the package using dpkg-buildpackage, debuild or whatever you prefer.

 cd ..

Here is your new libdbd-whatever-perl_1.0-1_all.deb :-) One last suggestion: I'm usually not building packages on my live systems but elsewhere. This helps keeping productional systems slim and "clean".

3.  Graphical Interface (menuconfig) installation

Menuconfig is a graphical tool that allows in an easy way to configure, compile and generate OpenSIPS configuration files - all by simply running

    make menuconfig

The Interface allows the user to do the following :

1. Configure OpenSIPS compilation related options such as :

    - Compilation Flags. For example, the user can now easily compile in TCP
      support from within the GUI, or enable memory allocation debugging, etc.
      Each compilation flag functionality is explained in short in the GUI.
    - Module Compilation Selection. The user can now easily select to compile
      modules that have external dependencies, and that are not compiled in
      by default. For example, the user can choose to also enable the MySQL
      support by enabling the db_mysql module. The interface will also notify
      the user about the dependencies that must be installed based on the modules
      that the user has selected.
    - Installation Prefix. The user can use the GUI to configure the OpenSIPS
      installation path to be used

2. Install OpenSIPS and Cleanup OpenSIPS sources

    - Upon configuring OpenSIPS related options from above,
      the user can choose to install OpenSIPS directly from the GUI.

3. Generate OpenSIPS config files

    - The tool can also generate OpenSIPS configuration files based on the-
      user's preferences. So far, we have defined three main classes of OpenSIPS
      configuration files :
        - Residential
        - Trunking
        - Load-balancer

   For each type of configuration file, the user can choose to enable/disable-
   certain options. For example, for the Residential script, the user can choose
   to enable presence support, to handle NAT, and many more. After the user has
   properly configured it's desired OpenSIPS script in the GUI, it will have the
   option to generate and obtain the final OpenSIPS cfg.

If you have installed OpenSIPS from packages ( debs, rpms, etc ) and not from sources, you will still be able to use the graphical interface for generating configuration files, by running

	osipsconfig