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Know more about Kamailio

Kamailio is a distribution of SER. It mainly provides a scalable SIP server suitable for small through to carrier-grade installations.

It can handle over 5000 call setups per second. Also, it can serve up to 300,000 active subscribers with just a 4GB Ram System.

Moreover, it functions as a Registrar server, Location server, Proxy server, SIP Application server, and Redirect server.

How we install Kamailio sip proxy server on CentOS 7

Now let’s take a look at how our Support Engineers install the Kamailio sip proxy server.

Step 1: Setting SELinux to a Permissive/Disabled mode

Here is the command we run to set the SELinux to permissive mode.

$ sudo setenforce 0
$ sudo sed -i ‘s/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=permissive/g’ /etc/selinux/config

Or else we can also permanently disable it by rebooting the CentOS system.

$ sudo setenforce 0
$ sudo sed -i ‘s/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/g’ /etc/selinux/config
$ sudo reboot

After rebooting, we confirm SELinux status:

$ sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: targeted
Current mode: permissive
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Max kernel policy version: 31

Step 2: Install MariaDB Database server

Kamailio requires a database server to function. For this, we will install the MariaDB database server by running the below commands.

$ sudo yum -y install mariadb-server
$ sudo systemctl enable –now mariadb
$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

Step 3: Add Kamailio RPM Repository

CentOS 8:

$ sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/kamailio.repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kamailio:/v5.3.x-rpms/CentOS_8/home:kamailio:v5.3.x-rpms.repo

Some packages are not on CentOS 8 repository. We have to use Fedora 29 repository on CentOS 8. If the same issue happens to you, change the repository by running the commands below.

$ sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/kamailio.repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kamailio:/v5.3.x-rpms/Fedora_29/home:kamailio:v5.3.x-rpms.repo

CentOS 7:

$ sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/kamailio.repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kamailio:/v5.3.x-rpms/CentOS_7/home:kamailio:v5.3.x-rpms.repo

Step 4: Install Kamailio SIP Server on CentOS 8/CentOS 7

Once we add the repository, we install the Kamailio SIP Server on CentOS 8/CentOS 7 Linux.

$ sudo yum install vim kamailio kamailio-presence kamailio-ldap kamailio-mysql kamailio-debuginfo kamailio-xmpp kamailio-unixodbc kamailio-utils kamailio-tls kamailio-outbound kamailio-gzcompress

Dependency tree will be shown. In that we enter the ‘Y’ key to begin installation.

Then we confirm Kamailio version.

$ kamailio -version
version: kamailio 5.3.3 (x86_64/linux) c918a3
flags: USE_TCP, USE_TLS, USE_SCTP, TLS_HOOKS, USE_RAW_SOCKS, DISABLE_NAGLE, USE_MCAST, DNS_IP_HACK, SHM_MMAP, PKG_MALLOC, Q_MALLOC, F_MALLOC, TLSF_MALLOC, DBG_SR_MEMORY, USE_FUTEX, FAST_LOCK-ADAPTIVE_WAIT, USE_DNS_CACHE, USE_DNS_FAILOVER, USE_NAPTR, USE_DST_BLACKLIST, HAVE_RESOLV_RES, TLS_PTHREAD_MUTEX_SHARED
ADAPTIVE_WAIT_LOOPS 1024, MAX_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE 262144, MAX_URI_SIZE 1024, BUF_SIZE 65535, DEFAULT PKG_SIZE 8MB
poll method support: poll, epoll_lt, epoll_et, sigio_rt, select.
id: c918a3
compiled on 14:32:52 Mar 16 2020 with gcc 8.2.1

Step 5: Configuring Kamailio SIP proxy server on CentOS 8/CentOS 7

Now we edit the file /etc/kamailio/kamctlrc and make sure the DBENGINE variable is set to MySQL. Then we remove the pound symbol to uncomment it.

$ sudo vi /etc/kamailio/kamctlrc

After that, we set the database engine to MySQL.

DBENGINE=MYSQL
DBHOST=localhost

We run the below command to create users and tables required by Kamailio (Schema).

$ sudo kamdbctl create
MySQL password for root:
INFO: test server charset
INFO: creating database kamailio …
INFO: granting privileges to database kamailio …
INFO: creating standard tables into kamailio …
INFO: Core Kamailio tables succesfully created.
Install presence related tables? (y/n): y
INFO: creating presence tables into kamailio …
INFO: Presence tables succesfully created.
Install tables for imc cpl siptrace domainpolicy carrierroute
drouting userblacklist htable purple uac pipelimit mtree sca mohqueue
rtpproxy rtpengine secfilter? (y/n): y
INFO: creating extra tables into kamailio …
INFO: Extra tables succesfully created.
Install tables for uid_auth_db uid_avp_db uid_domain uid_gflags
uid_uri_db? (y/n): y
INFO: creating uid tables into kamailio …
INFO: UID tables succesfully created.

When asked for a root password, we enter the MySQL root user password as configured through mysql_secure_installation

Then we answer all the questions that follow. Next we edit /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg to configure Kamailio:

$ sudo vi /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg

Then we add the following lines just below #!KAMAILIO.

#!define WITH_MYSQL
#!define WITH_AUTH
#!define WITH_USRLOCDB
#!define WITH_NAT
#!define WITH_PRESENCE
#!define WITH_ACCDB

After that, we start Kamailio

$ sudo systemctl restart kamailio

Then we enable the service to start on boot.

$ sudo systemctl enable kamailio

Finally, now we have a running Kamailio SIP server on CentOS.

$ systemctl status kamailio
● kamailio.service - Kamailio (OpenSER) - the Open Source SIP Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kamailio.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2020-12-05 16:35:23 EAT; 12s ago
Main PID: 9648 (kamailio)
Tasks: 41 (limit: 24003)
Memory: 50.0M
CGroup: /system.slice/kamailio.service
├─9648 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9649 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9650 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9651 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9652 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9653 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9654 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9655 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9656 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9658 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
├─9659 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
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Conclusion

In today’s writeup, we saw how our Support Engineers install Kamailio sip proxy on CentOS.