kazoo-configs-kamailio/POSTGRES.md

Notes on upgrading to Kamailio 5.5 and moving to Postgres backend.

Thus removing the dependency on KazooDB which is closed source.

First completely remove the current installation

Removing existing kazoo-kamailo:

  yum remove kazoo-kamailio
  yum remove kamailio
  yum remove kazoo-configs-kamailio

Next install the lastest Kamailio (currently 5.5.0)

yum -y install yum-utils
yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.kamailio.org/centos/kamailio.repo
yum install kamailio kamailio-kazoo kamailio-outbound kamailio-presence kamailio-tls   kamailio-utils kamailio-uuid    kamailio-websocket kamailio-xmpp kamailio-postgresql

Now install latest postgres (currently 12.7)

# Install the repository RPM:
sudo yum install -y https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-6-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install -y postgresql12-server
/usr/pgsql-12/bin/postgresql-12-setup  initdb

sudo chkconfig postgresql-12 on
sudo service postgresql-12 start

Create Kamailio DB

su postgres -c '/usr/pgsql-12/bin/createdb kamailio'

Add DB user and grant privileges

sudo su postgres -c psql
	CREATE USER kamailio WITH PASSWORD 'kamailio';
	GRANT ALL privileges on database kamailio to kamailio;

Modify default postgres authentication to allow kamailio access

vi /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/pg_hba.conf

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     password
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            password
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 password

Increase the max number of connections and shared memory

vi /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/postgres.conf

shared_buffers = 256MB
max_connections = 500 

Restart postgres and check kamailio access to DB

systemctl restart postgresql-12
psql -U kamailio -d postgres://kamailio:kamailio@127.0.0.1/kamailio

Get the postgres kamailio configs:

git clone https://github.com/kageds/kazoo-configs-kamailio /etc/kazoo
cd /etc/kazoo/kamailio
git checkout 4.3-postgres

Initialize the kamailio database with all the required tables:

psql -U kamailio -d postgres://kamailio:kamailio@127.0.0.1/kamailio -f /etc/kazoo/kamailo/db_scripts/kamailio_initdb_postgres.sql

Notice that the backend DB in local.cfg is now postgres

#!trydef KZ_DB_MODULE postgres
#!substdef "!KAMAILIO_DBMS!postgres!g"
#!substdef "!KAZOO_DB_URL!postgres://kamailio:kamailio@127.0.0.1/kamailio!g"

Tell kamailio where the configuration files are

vi /etc/sysconfig/kamailio

#
# Kamailio startup options
#

# Amount of shared memory to allocate for the running Kamailio server (in Mb)
#SHM_MEMORY=64

# Amount of per-process (package) memory to allocate for Kamailio (in Mb)
#PKG_MEMORY=4

# Enable the server to leave a core file when it crashes.
# Set this to 'yes' to enable kamailio to leave a core file when it crashes
# or 'no' to disable this feature. This option is case sensitive and only
# accepts 'yes' and 'no' and only in lowercase letters.
# On some systems (e.g. Ubuntu 6.10, Debian 4.0) it is necessary to specify
# a directory for the core files to get a dump. Look into the kamailio
# init file for an example configuration.
DUMP_CORE=no

CFGFILE=/etc/kazoo/kamailio/kamailio.cfg

Start kamailio (NOT kazoo-kamailio)

systemctl enable kamailio
systemctl start kamailio