Syslog is a standard unix facility. Normally, in a standard linux install, you will see a file named /var/log/messages. That is where the accounting information will be written.
You can groom this, for instance, if you want to direct the messages from SER to a special file, using the syslog facility. You will need to look at the manual page, ie:
man syslog.conf
to get some ideas about this.
The syslog entries are enabled with the lines:
... loadmodule "/usr/ser/lib/ser/modules/acc.so" ... modparam("acc", "log_level", 1) modparam("acc", "log_flag", 1 ) modparam("acc", "log_fmt", "miocfsu" ) ...
route { ... setflag(1); setflag(2); ...
}
I can't comment on the accounting module for mysql, but I imagine that is described by the accounting README.txt file in the appropriate module directory.
Our implementation scans the syslog files and writes into a postgres database the call accounting stuff.
There is a bit of a learning curve involved with this. However, the programming documentation is very good and this list is great for when you get stumped, but only then :-)
---greg Greg Fausak Addaline.com, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: serusers-bounces@iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces@lists.iptel.org] On Behalf Of Director General: NEFACOMP Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 3:17 PM To: serusers Subject: [Serusers] Accounting with SER
I would like to get more information on accounting with SER.
Ok, I followed the documentation about accounting but it doesn't give enough information about how to retrieve the accounting information. It just says that Reports are by DEFAULT sent to the syslog facility. Where is that syslog? How do I retreive that information? Is it possible to put that information in the MySQL database? How? That is by DEFAULT; so, is it possible to change that default location?
Some gurus will realize how NEWBIE I am in the Linux World. Please help me.
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