Introduction

At the time this document is created, Switzernet is running a dozen of SIP server using a replication of porta-sip using asterisk and an old version of OpenSer. The advantage of OpenSer was that it includes RADIUS as it is designed to works with Porta-One and its porta-billing. However, porta-sip server suffers from a lack of configuration. For example, in order to ban some IP addresses, it is needed to reboot the server after having modified the config file of openser.

Those OpenSer servers might also be responsible of some quality issues we are experiencing.

In order to replace those OpenSer servers by Astrad servers, we set up a system of configuration management. The tool used is Puppet. [doc] This tool provides us a way to do an automated installation of our configuration.

On puppet, we are using modules as versions of our servers.

Here is the version evolution record of our astrad configuration. :

Astrad 001

Astrad is the name for ASTerisk and RADius

An Astrad server is an Asterisk server on which we included the RADIUS protocol to communicate with our porta-billing.

This first version includes an automated installation of the first version [doc] of the manual installation.

Plus the two following updates:

- Update of management of vocal messages [doc]

- Update of calls billing with Asterisk and Porta-Billing [doc]

Version	Astrad v 001
File	data1/110126,1047,astrad,001.zip
Size	3.81 MB

References

http://switzernet.com/public/100520-install-asterisk/

http://switzernet.com/2/public/100719-asterisk-update/

http://switzernet.com/2/public/100726-patch-mysql-radius/