March 31, 2016

OpenSIPs installation with PostgreSQL on Debian

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OpenSIPs Installation with PostgreSQL on Debian

What is OpenSIPS?

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OpenSIPs is an acronym for Open Session Initiation Protocol Server. It is very popular among open source VoIP community members and top VoIP development companies as a multipurpose and multifunctional SIP server. It can also operate as a signaling server and it can be used in multiple applications with custom OpenSIPs development such as:

  • SIP Registrar
  • SIP Router/Switch
  • SIP Switch
  • SIP Frontend
  • Back-to-Back User Agent
  • IP Gateway (SMS, XMPP)
  • Redirect Server
  • Presence Server
  • Application Server
  • IM Server
  • NAT traversal Server
  • Load Balancer
  • Session Border Controller

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– OpenSIPS is an opensource software implementation of the Session Initiation Protocol for Voice over IP that can be used to handle voice, text and video communication.

– OpenSIPS is a multi-functional, multi-purpose signaling SIP server that can act as SIP Router/Switch, SIP Registrar, Application Server, Redirect Server, Load Balancer, Back- to-Back User Agent, Presence Server, IM Server, Session Border Controller, SIP Front- End, NAT traversal Server, IP Gateway (SMS, XMPP) and others.

– OpenSIPS is highly flexible, has an application interface and modules for effective application building, and high scalability.

– This blog will describe the steps to install current stable release Opensips-2.1 with PostgreSQL on Debian.


1) Install the Dependencies

– Update the source repository and package indexes to install the latest available pakcages
# apt-get update– Install the required packages for opensips
# apt-get install g++ bison lynx subversion flex git libxml2-dev ncurses-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libcurl4-penssl-dev libcurl4-nss-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev libxml2-devlibxml2-dev libexpat1-dev perl libdbi-perl unixODBC unixODBC-dev libterm-readline-gnu-perl libncurses5-dev libdbd-pg-perl libfrontier-rpc-perl libberkeleydb-perl

2) Download Opensips-2.1

# cd /usr/local/src
# git clone https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips.git -b 2.1 opensips_2_1
# cd opensips_2_1/

3) Compile Opensips

# make all– Open the configuration interface:
# make menuconfig– The text-based user interface will look like this:

– Press Right arrow key on the first option and goto the following sub menu:

– Pressing right arrow key will display list of modules where we need to select the modules along with module ‘db_postgres’ which we want to install:

– Once the modules’ selection is done, press left arrow key to go back to previous menu Select “Save Changes” and press enter. A list of suggested libraries and packages will show up at the bottom of the screen for help.

– Press left arrow key again to go back to main menu. Select “Compile And Install OpenSIPS” and press Enter. If everything goes well opensips will be installed successfully.

– Now install Opensips:
# make install[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″]

4) Create .pgpass file for PostgreSQL authentication

# cd /root
# touch ~/.pgpass
# vim .pgpass
localhost:5432:opensips:postgres:password
# chmod 0600 /root/.pgpass[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″]

5) Copy default and the int.d startup scripts to relevant directories

# cd /usr/src/opensips_2_1/packaging/debian/
# cp opensips.default /etc/default/opensips– Edit the default file:
# vim /etc/default/opensips
RUN_OPENSIPS=yes
# cp opensips.init /etc/init.d/opensips– Edit init script and change below variables:
# vim /etc/init.d/opensips
DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/opensips
CFGFILE=/usr/local/etc/opensips/opensips.cfg

6) DB Credentials Configurations

– Go to /usr/local/etc/opensips directory ,open the file opensipsctlrc and set below database parameters.

7) Creating the Database

# /usr/local/sbin/opensipsdbctl create

– If you want to create a different database other than defined in DBNAME, you can run

# /usr/local/sbin/opensipsdbctl create your_custom_db_name

PGSQL password for root:
INFO: test server charset
INFO: creating database opensips …
INFO: Core OpenSIPS tables succesfully created.
Install presence related tables? (y/n): y
INFO: creating presence tables into opensips …
INFO: Presence tables succesfully created.
Install tables for imc cpl siptrace domainpolicy carrierroute userblacklist? (y/n): y
INFO: creating extra tables into opensips …
INFO: Extra tables succesfully created.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″]

8) Start/Stop Opensips service

# /etc/init.d/opensips start
# /etc/init.d/opensips stop– We can check Opensips is running or not by the command
# netstat -pan |grep opensips

udp      0     0 192.168.1.88:5060    0.0.0.0:*    3359/opensips
udp      0     0 192.168.1.88:5060    0.0.0.0:*    3305/opensips

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