On 10/24/2014 12:53 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
OK, sorry for the basic question, but I'm overwhelmed.My install gives me a kamailio-basic.cfg, kamailio.cfg and kamailio-oob.cfg. Is there any explanation as to the difference between these? I assume "basic" is a simpler config, but I don't know what it lacks vs. kamailio.cfg, and I have no idea what "oob" means ("out-of-band?") The configs reference a kamailio-local.cfg. My assumption was that I could place config changes here, but I see later that kamailio.cfg changes some parameters. In particular, I set various auth_db parameters in kamailio-local.cfg which kamailio.cfg changes later. So I don't understand when I might want to use kamailio-local. The config files refer me to a cookbook, but unless I'm missing something, the cookbook is a long list of config directives. When I read "cookbook" I assume I'm being directed to something containing recipes like "how to enable web sockets," with step-by-step guides about which config files to edit and what to add. Am I just missing that?
You're not missing anything. You've just encountered the fundamental problem with Kamailio documentation. :-) Welcome to the party.
There's a lot of reference material, and not a lot of high-level methodological guidance as far as "putting it all together" or conceptual orientation as to why you might want or not want to do the things that are referred to by the documentation. That's what you're looking for, and by and large, it's not there.
At the moment, the only real answer, besides commercial training, is the upcoming Kamailio Admin book put out by ASIPTO. But, of course, strides are being made to improve the documentation and make it more accessible to a wider audience, especially of new users. Believe me, it's better than it used to be.
It's just that most of us have jobs and have to make a living, on top of doing development and debugging of the software itself, so inevitably this kind of stuff takes a back seat to the day-to-day. There are lots of ambitious documentation efforts that have been consigned to the realm of dreams deferred and ambitions unrealised.
Patience, and don't get frustrated or discouraged. Just tinker, and ask on the lists until it starts to make sense. :-)
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