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There are several places that do scheduled tasks or periodic housecleaning, each with its own implementation: * res_pjsip_keepalive has a thread that sends keepalives. * pjsip_distributor has a thread that cleans up expired unidentified requests. * res_pjsip_registrar_expire has a thread that cleans up expired contacts. * res_pjsip_pubsub uses ast_sched directly and then calls ast_sip_push_task. * res_pjsip_sdp_rtp also uses ast_sched to send keepalives. There are also places where we should be doing scheduled work but aren't. A good example are the places we have sorcery observers to start registration or qualify. These don't work when changes are made to a backend database without a pjsip reload. We need to check periodically. As a first step to solving these issues, a new ast_sip_sched facility has been created. ast_sip_sched wraps ast_sched but only uses ast_sched as a scheduled queue. When a task is ready to run, ast_sip_task_pusk is called for it. This ensures that the task is executed in a PJLIB registered thread and doesn't hold up the ast_sched thread so it can immediately continue processing the queue. The serializer used by ast_sip_sched is one of your choosing or a random one from the res_pjsip pool if you don't choose one. Another feature is the ability to automatically clean up the task_data when the task expires (if ever). If it's an ao2 object, it will be dereferenced, if it's a malloc'd object it will be freed. This is selectable when the task is scheduled. Even if you choose to not auto dereference an ao2 task data object, the scheduler itself maintains a reference to it while the task is under it's control. This prevents the data from disappearing out from under the task. There are two scheduling models. AST_SIP_SCHED_TASK_PERIODIC specifies that the invocations of the task occur at the specific interval. That is, every "interval" milliseconds, regardless of how long the task takes. If the task takes longer than the interval, it will be scheduled at the next available multiple of interval. For exmaple: If the task has an interval of 60 secs and the task takes 70 secs (it better not), the next invocation will happen at 120 seconds. AST_SIP_SCHED_TASK_DELAY specifies that the next invocation of the task should start "interval" milliseconds after the current invocation has finished. Also, the same ast_sched facility for fixed or variable intervals exists. The task's return code in conjunction with the AST_SIP_SCHED_TASK_FIXED or AST_SIP_SCHED_TASK_VARIABLE flags controls the next invocation start time. One res_pjsip.h housekeeping change was made. The pjsip header files were added to the top. There have been a few cases lately where I've needed res_pjsip.h just for ast_sip calls and had compiles fail spectacularly because I didn't add the pjsip header files to my source even though I never referenced any pjsip calls. Finally, a few new convenience APIs were added to astobj2 to make things a little easier in the scheduler. ao2_ref_and_lock() calls ao2_ref() and ao2_lock() in one go. ao2_unlock_and_unref() does the reverse. A few macros were also copied from res_phoneprov because I got tired of having to duplicate the same hash, sort and compare functions over and over again. The AO2_STRING_FIELD_(HASH|SORT|CMP)_FN macros will insert functions suitable for aor_container_alloc into your source. This facility can be used immediately for the situations where we already have a thread that wakes up periodically or do some scheduled work. For the registration and qualify issues, additional sorcery and schema changes would need to be made so that we can easily detect changed objects on a periodic basis without having to pull the entire database back to check. I'm thinking of a last-updated timestamp on the rows but more on this later. Change-Id: I7af6ad2b2d896ea68e478aa1ae201d6dd016ba1c
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=== The Asterisk(R) Open Source PBX
===
=== by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com>
=== and the Asterisk.org developer community
===
=== Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Digium, Inc.
=== and other copyright holders.
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--- SECURITY ------------------------------------------------------------------
It is imperative that you read and fully understand the contents of
the security information document before you attempt to configure and run
an Asterisk server.
If you downloaded Asterisk as a tarball, see the security section in the PDF
version of the documentation in doc/tex/asterisk.pdf. Alternatively, pull up
the HTML version of the documentation in doc/tex/asterisk/index.html. The
source for the security document is available in doc/tex/security.tex.
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--- WHAT IS ASTERISK ? --------------------------------------------------------
Asterisk is an Open Source PBX and telephony toolkit. It is, in a
sense, middleware between Internet and telephony channels on the bottom,
and Internet and telephony applications at the top. However, Asterisk supports
more telephony interfaces than just Internet telephony. Asterisk also has a
vast amount of support for traditional PSTN telephony, as well. For more
information on the project itself, please visit the Asterisk home page at:
http://www.asterisk.org
The official Asterisk wiki can be found at:
https://wiki.asterisk.org
In addition you'll find lots of information compiled by the Asterisk
community on this Wiki:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk
There is a book on Asterisk published by O'Reilly under the Creative Commons
License. It is available in book stores as well as in a downloadable version on
the http://www.asteriskdocs.org web site.
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--- SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS -----------------------------------------------
--- Linux
The Asterisk Open Source PBX is developed and tested primarily on the
GNU/Linux operating system, and is supported on every major GNU/Linux
distribution.
--- Others
Asterisk has also been 'ported' and reportedly runs properly on other
operating systems as well, including Sun Solaris, Apple's Mac OS X, Cygwin,
and the BSD variants.
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--- GETTING STARTED -----------------------------------------------------------
First, be sure you've got supported hardware (but note that you don't need
ANY special hardware, not even a sound card) to install and run Asterisk.
Supported telephony hardware includes:
* All Analog and Digital Interface cards from Digium (www.digium.com)
* QuickNet Internet PhoneJack and LineJack (http://www.quicknet.net)
* any full duplex sound card supported by ALSA, OSS, or PortAudio
* any ISDN card supported by mISDN on Linux
* The Xorcom Astribank channel bank
* VoiceTronix OpenLine products
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--- UPGRADING FROM AN EARLIER VERSION -----------------------------------------
If you are updating from a previous version of Asterisk, make sure you
read the UPGRADE.txt file in the source directory. There are some files
and configuration options that you will have to change, even though we
made every effort possible to maintain backwards compatibility.
In order to discover new features to use, please check the configuration
examples in the /configs directory of the source code distribution. For a
list of new features in this version of Asterisk, see the CHANGES file.
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--- NEW INSTALLATIONS ---------------------------------------------------------
Ensure that your system contains a compatible compiler and development
libraries. Asterisk requires either the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version
3.0 or higher, or a compiler that supports the C99 specification and some of
the gcc language extensions. In addition, your system needs to have the C
library headers available, and the headers and libraries for ncurses.
There are many modules that have additional dependencies. To see what
libraries are being looked for, see ./configure --help, or run
"make menuselect" to view the dependencies for specific modules.
On many distributions, these dependencies are installed by packages with names
like 'glibc-devel', 'ncurses-devel', 'openssl-devel' and 'zlib-devel'
or similar.
So, let's proceed:
1) Read this README file.
There are more documents than this one in the doc/ directory. You may also
want to check the configuration files that contain examples and reference
guides. They are all in the configs/ directory.
2) Run "./configure"
Execute the configure script to guess values for system-dependent
variables used during compilation.
3) Run "make menuselect" [optional]
This is needed if you want to select the modules that will be compiled and to
check dependencies for various optional modules.
4) Run "make"
Assuming the build completes successfully:
5) Run "make install"
If this is your first time working with Asterisk, you may wish to install
the sample PBX, with demonstration extensions, etc. If so, run:
6) "make samples"
Doing so will overwrite any existing configuration files you have installed.
Finally, you can launch Asterisk in the foreground mode (not a daemon) with:
# asterisk -vvvc
You'll see a bunch of verbose messages fly by your screen as Asterisk
initializes (that's the "very very verbose" mode). When it's ready, if
you specified the "c" then you'll get a command line console, that looks
like this:
*CLI>
You can type "core show help" at any time to get help with the system. For help
with a specific command, type "core show help <command>". To start the PBX using
your sound card, you can type "console dial" to dial the PBX. Then you can use
"console answer", "console hangup", and "console dial" to simulate the actions
of a telephone. Remember that if you don't have a full duplex sound card
(and Asterisk will tell you somewhere in its verbose messages if you do/don't)
then it won't work right (not yet).
"man asterisk" at the Unix/Linux command prompt will give you detailed
information on how to start and stop Asterisk, as well as all the command
line options for starting Asterisk.
Feel free to look over the configuration files in /etc/asterisk, where you
will find a lot of information about what you can do with Asterisk.
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--- ABOUT CONFIGURATION FILES -------------------------------------------------
All Asterisk configuration files share a common format. Comments are
delimited by ';' (since '#' of course, being a DTMF digit, may occur in
many places). A configuration file is divided into sections whose names
appear in []'s. Each section typically contains two types of statements,
those of the form 'variable = value', and those of the form 'object =>
parameters'. Internally the use of '=' and '=>' is exactly the same, so
they're used only to help make the configuration file easier to
understand, and do not affect how it is actually parsed.
Entries of the form 'variable=value' set the value of some parameter in
asterisk. For example, in dahdi.conf, one might specify:
switchtype=national
In order to indicate to Asterisk that the switch they are connecting to is
of the type "national". In general, the parameter will apply to
instantiations which occur below its specification. For example, if the
configuration file read:
switchtype = national
channel => 1-4
channel => 10-12
switchtype = dms100
channel => 25-47
The "national" switchtype would be applied to channels one through
four and channels 10 through 12, whereas the "dms100" switchtype would
apply to channels 25 through 47.
The "object => parameters" instantiates an object with the given
parameters. For example, the line "channel => 25-47" creates objects for
the channels 25 through 47 of the card, obtaining the settings
from the variables specified above.
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--- SPECIAL NOTE ON TIME ------------------------------------------------------
Those using SIP phones should be aware that Asterisk is sensitive to
large jumps in time. Manually changing the system time using date(1)
(or other similar commands) may cause SIP registrations and other
internal processes to fail. If your system cannot keep accurate time
by itself use NTP (http://www.ntp.org/) to keep the system clock
synchronized to "real time". NTP is designed to keep the system clock
synchronized by speeding up or slowing down the system clock until it
is synchronized to "real time" rather than by jumping the time and
causing discontinuities. Most Linux distributions include precompiled
versions of NTP. Beware of some time synchronization methods that get
the correct real time periodically and then manually set the system
clock.
Apparent time changes due to daylight savings time are just that,
apparent. The use of daylight savings time in a Linux system is
purely a user interface issue and does not affect the operation of the
Linux kernel or Asterisk. The system clock on Linux kernels operates
on UTC. UTC does not use daylight savings time.
Also note that this issue is separate from the clocking of TDM
channels, and is known to at least affect SIP registrations.
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--- FILE DESCRIPTORS ----------------------------------------------------------
Depending on the size of your system and your configuration,
Asterisk can consume a large number of file descriptors. In UNIX,
file descriptors are used for more than just files on disk. File
descriptors are also used for handling network communication
(e.g. SIP, IAX2, or H.323 calls) and hardware access (e.g. analog and
digital trunk hardware). Asterisk accesses many on-disk files for
everything from configuration information to voicemail storage.
Most systems limit the number of file descriptors that Asterisk can
have open at one time. This can limit the number of simultaneous
calls that your system can handle. For example, if the limit is set
at 1024 (a common default value) Asterisk can handle approximately 150
SIP calls simultaneously. To change the number of file descriptors
follow the instructions for your system below:
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--- PAM-based Linux System ----------------------------------------------------
If your system uses PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) edit
/etc/security/limits.conf. Add these lines to the bottom of the file:
root soft nofile 4096
root hard nofile 8196
asterisk soft nofile 4096
asterisk hard nofile 8196
(adjust the numbers to taste). You may need to reboot the system for
these changes to take effect.
== Generic UNIX System ==
If there are no instructions specifically adapted to your system
above you can try adding the command "ulimit -n 8192" to the script
that starts Asterisk.
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--- MORE INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------
See the doc directory for more documentation on various features. Again,
please read all the configuration samples that include documentation on
the configuration options.
If this release of Asterisk was downloaded from a tarball, then some
additional documentation should have been included.
* doc/tex/asterisk.pdf --- PDF version of the documentation
* doc/tex/asterisk/index.html --- HTML version of the documentation
Finally, you may wish to visit the web site and join the mailing list if
you're interested in getting more information.
http://www.asterisk.org/support
Welcome to the growing worldwide community of Asterisk users!
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--- Mark Spencer, and the Asterisk.org development community
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Asterisk is a trademark of Digium, Inc.