Hi Everyone ,
that's very good feedback and socat sounds good .. we'll see how far it gets us
.
thank you
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De : Risto Vaarandi <risto.vaara...@gmail.com>
À : rou...@ieee.org
Cc : simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Envoyé le : Mercredi 28 Décembre 2011 21h53
Objet : Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] SEC & unix sockets
2011/12/28 John P. Rouillard <rou...@cs.umb.edu>:
>
> In message <4efb49c8.30...@seb.ee>,
> Risto Vaarandi writes:
>>On 12/28/2011 05:05 PM, sylver_b wrote:
>>> Basically , we are running a voip peering service but have to face fraud
>>> on a daily basis. We tried to imagine all sort of ways to detect/stop
>>> fraudsters (ie: account age vs total active calls, account age vs
>>> purchase frequency, etc.. ) . SEC comes handy as adding rules should be
>>> a lot easier . However, we can only find active calls by connecting to a
>>> unix socket - this is an output sample :
>>> [...]
>>> How could we continuously listen to unix sockets with SEC as calls come
>>> in and achieve the following :
>>
>>I think the best way of getting data from UNIX socket would be a small
>>Perl program which would read the socket and print received events as
>>lines to standard output. If SEC starts this program at its startup with
>>'spawn' action, it will be able to receive events from the socket.
>>Another approach would be to let the program write into a file, and
>>configure the file as input source with --input option.
>
> Also you could use netcat (nc) or socat with appropriate arguments to
> conect to the socket and transfer the data to stdout rather than
> writing a perl script.
>
> I would not suggest using telnet to do this, it can sort of work but
> you will occasional get odd behavior which is less likely with
> socat/netcat.
>
> So a spawn command that runs:
>
> nc ip_addr port
>
> will take the data from a tcp socket at ip_addr:port and send it to
> stdout (and into SEC).
>
That's indeed a much better way than having a small perl script :)
risto
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