Kamailio dynamic logging level

 Yet another method to get dynamic logging level on Kamailio. Means to change logging level on the fly.

First to mention - already built-in method for Kamailio inside corex module. But this one could be very verbose.

Other method is to specify level in xlog command explicitly.

kamailio.cfg

#!KAMAILIO

# Level for realtime logging for messages. To see debug messages in realtime, set it to 2
realtime.debug_level=5

...

debug=2

...

request_route {

    $var(debug_level) = $(sel(cfg_get.realtime.debug_level){s.int});

    ...

    xlog("$var(debug_level)", "This is a debug message\n");

}

And than just adjust this debug_level config variable via shell

# kamcmd cfg.set realtime debug_level 2

to get all xlog messages to be printed, or set it to the greater value like

# kamcmd cfg.set realtime debug_level 5

to get em suppressed.  

You can expand this method to have bigger levels of verbosity via different variables, but usually it's enough like this.

P.S.: Also, as an alternative (or build-in method) there is a possibility to use corex module functionality

Small script to record calls on Asterisk on the fly

 Sometimes there is a need to record ongoing call on Asterisk, where usually there is no recording (due to GDPR or smth like this). Usual way with mixmonitor start in CLI requires a channel ID, which is usually not at hand.

 Small script that will get calls with caller and/or callee numbers (based on assumption, that these numbers are available in Asterisk channel name) and put recordings of them in /tmp directory. Separated for A/B legs and mixed.

Made for myself to simplify some tasks and not to look for it again.

Usage:

./call_record.sh <CALLER_NUM> [<CALLEE_NUM>]

call_record.sh

#!/bin/bash

NUM_1=${1:-"DUMMY"}
NUM_2=${2:-"DUMMY"}

CHANNELS=$(asterisk -rx 'core show channels' | grep -E "${NUM_1}|${NUM_2}" | awk '{print $1}')

if [ -z ${CHANNELS} ]; then
    echo "Cannot find channel"
    exit 0
fi

DATE=$(date '+%F-%H-%M-%S')
ID=1

for CHANNEL in $CHANNELS; do

    DIRNAME=/tmp/${DATE}-${NUM_1}-${NUM_2}

    mkdir -p ${DIRNAME}

    REC_COMMAND=`echo ${DIRNAME}/${ID}-mix.wav,r'('${DIRNAME}/${ID}-in.wav')'t'('${DIRNAME}/${ID}-out.wav')'`

    echo "Recording ${ID} at ${DIRNAME}"

    asterisk -rx "mixmonitor start ${CHANNEL} ${REC_COMMAND}"
    
    ID=$[ ${ID} + 1 ]

done