how to configure Asterisk with SER?

I want to configure Asterisk with SER.
Does anyone know how to do it, or where to find appropriate guide?
I have already Asterisk working on my Linux server, and I would like to add SER to it.
Do I need to reinstall Asterisk? or do I install SER and simply configure them together in config files?
I have already database driven Asterisk, and I am worried that it may require huge modifications to what I have already done.

Thanks for any help

Asterisk will communicate with ser/openser, with ser/openser as a sip server. Asterisk can either operate as another server, or as a client.

How you put them to work, depends very much on what you want to achieve. If you want ser to act as a load-balancer, or as a registrar, or both? Your saving grace here is that whatever way you setup your ser/openser, the config on asterisk will be minimal.. configure it to know about the server in sip.conf (either as a peer or a user or both), and then direct/accept traffic to and from the ser/openser box via your asterisk config/agi.

For more info on ser/openser, check out www.iptel.org and www.openser.org respectively. There are docs on those sites to get you started, and the openser forum on this site will be able to provide answers to specific questions.

Greetings,
I am working on a project where i have to configure 6 Asterisk boxes to work with a SER box and allow inter-communications between them all. The asterisk boxes aren't a real problem its just the SER box. I am not able to find a clear cut document on how to configure the SER as a Registrar for the Asterisk boxes to connect to. If someone could lend some helpful information I would appreciated it.

jerniman :

Greetings, I am working on a project where i have to configure 6 Asterisk boxes to work with a SER box and allow inter-communications between them all. The asterisk boxes aren't a real problem its just the SER box. I am not able to find a clear cut document on how to configure the SER as a Registrar for the Asterisk boxes to connect to. If someone could lend some helpful information I would appreciated it.

Good luck. People have done it, that we know, do they share it?

No chance!

I'm currently working on this as part of the A2Billing project and we're making progress (check out the development forum at http://forum.asterisk2billing.org/

Once the issues are ironed out be assured that this will be made available to the community. IMHO the lack of insight on how this is done is contra to the open source community spirit.

regards

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I am not able to find a clear cut document on how to configure the SER as a Registrar for the Asterisk boxes to connect to.

openSER/SER are registration proxies. You need to configure Asterisk to connect to it as a registrar.

Asterisk will speak SIP and login to openSER. openSER is then in control of the routing of what gets to the Asterisk boxes.

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Good luck. People have done it, that we know, do they share it? No chance!

Have you looked at sipwise.com for sample config's? its the result of many people asking for scripts that do X or Y, created by the developers of those applications.

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IMHO the lack of insight on how this is done is contra to the open source community spirit.

umm.. I can understand people getting frustrated about this setup as its not a simple thing. SER/OpenSER especially is a complex program that provides a highly configurable interface for the administrator to control his/her sip domain. You need a good working knowledge of SIP, and a familiarity with imperitive programming/scripting style languages, and even then you need to learn the libraries (same with any language)

Would you complain to Larry Wall that he doesn't write all your perl scripts for you?

Thank you x-console, SIPWISE.com seems to be a good choice for me. I was looking though the templates and I think that I can use and learn from them.