[asterisk-commits] qwell: trunk r107827 - in /trunk: ./ doc/voicemail_odbc_postgresql.txt
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Tue Mar 11 18:38:00 CDT 2008
Author: qwell
Date: Tue Mar 11 18:38:00 2008
New Revision: 107827
URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&rev=107827
Log:
Merged revisions 107826 via svnmerge from
https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4
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r107826 | qwell | 2008-03-11 18:37:05 -0500 (Tue, 11 Mar 2008) | 7 lines
Update documentation for pgsql ODBC voicemail.
(closes issue #12186)
Reported by: jsmith
Patches:
vm_pgsql_doc_update.patch uploaded by jsmith (license 15)
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Modified:
trunk/ (props changed)
trunk/doc/voicemail_odbc_postgresql.txt
Propchange: trunk/
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Modified: trunk/doc/voicemail_odbc_postgresql.txt
URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/doc/voicemail_odbc_postgresql.txt?view=diff&rev=107827&r1=107826&r2=107827
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--- trunk/doc/voicemail_odbc_postgresql.txt (original)
+++ trunk/doc/voicemail_odbc_postgresql.txt Tue Mar 11 18:38:00 2008
@@ -1,19 +1,44 @@
GETTING ODBC STORAGE WITH POSTGRESQL WORKING WITH VOICEMAIL
-
1) Install PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL-devel, unixODBC, and unixODBC-devel, and
-PostgreSQL-ODBC. Make sure PostgreSQL is listening on a TCP socket, and that
+PostgreSQL-ODBC. Make sure PostgreSQL is running and listening on a TCP socket.
+
+2) Log into your server as root, and then type:
+
+[root at localhost ~]# su - postgres
+
+This will log you into the system as the "postgres" user, so that you can
+create a new role and database within the PostgreSQL database system. At the
+new prompt, type:
+
+$ createuser -s -D -R -l -P -e asterisk
+Enter password for new role:
+Enter it again:
+
+Obviously you should enter a password when prompted. This creates the
+database role (or user).
+
+Next we need to create the asterisk database. Type:
+
+$ createdb -O asterisk -e asterisk
+
+This creates the database and sets the owner of the database to the asterisk
+role.
+
+
+Next, make sure that
you are using md5 authentication for the database user. The line in my
-pg_hba.conf looks like:
+/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf looks like:
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
-local jsmith2 jsmith2 md5
+local asterisk asterisk md5
local all all ident sameuser
# IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
-
-2) Make sure you have the PostgreSQL odbc driver setup in /etc/odbcinst.ini.
+As soon as you're done editing that file, log out as the postgres user.
+
+3) Make sure you have the PostgreSQL odbc driver setup in /etc/odbcinst.ini.
Mine looks like:
[PostgreSQL]
@@ -28,7 +53,7 @@
[PostgreSQL]
-3) Setup a DSN in /etc/odbc.ini, pointing at the PostgreSQL database and
+4) Setup a DSN in /etc/odbc.ini, pointing at the PostgreSQL database and
driver. Mine looks like:
[testing]
@@ -36,9 +61,9 @@
Driver = PostgreSQL
Trace = No
TraceFile = sql.log
-Database = jsmith2
+Database = asterisk
Servername = 127.0.0.1
-UserName = jsmith2
+UserName = asterisk
Password = supersecret
Port = 5432
ReadOnly = No
@@ -54,7 +79,7 @@
[testing]
-4) Test your database connectivity through ODBC. If this doesn't work,
+5) Test your database connectivity through ODBC. If this doesn't work,
something is wrong with your ODBC setup.
[jsmith2 at localhost tmp]$ echo "select 1" | isql -v testing
@@ -83,7 +108,7 @@
[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
bash: echo: write error: Broken pipe
-5) Compile Asterisk with support for ODBC voicemail. Go to your Asterisk
+6) Compile Asterisk with support for ODBC voicemail. Go to your Asterisk
source directory and run `make menuselect`. Under "Voicemail Build Options",
enable "ODBC_STORAGE".
# See doc/README.odbcstorage for more information
@@ -91,7 +116,7 @@
Recompile Asterisk and install the new version.
-6) Once you've recompiled and re-installed Asterisk, check to make sure
+7) Once you've recompiled and re-installed Asterisk, check to make sure
res_odbc.so has been compiled.
localhost*CLI> show modules like res_odbc.so
@@ -100,7 +125,7 @@
1 modules loaded
-7) Now it's time to get Asterisk configured. First, we need to tell Asterisk
+8) Now it's time to get Asterisk configured. First, we need to tell Asterisk
about our ODBC setup. Open /etc/asterisk/res_odbc.conf and add the following:
[postgres]
@@ -108,7 +133,7 @@
dsn => testing
pre-connect => yes
-8) At the Asterisk CLI, unload and then load the res_odbc.so module. (You
+9) At the Asterisk CLI, unload and then load the res_odbc.so module. (You
could restart Asterisk as well, but this way makes it easier to tell what's
happening.) Notice how it says it's connected to "postgres", which is our ODBC
connection as defined in res_odbc.conf, which points to the "testing" DSN in
@@ -135,7 +160,7 @@
DSN: testing
Connected: yes
-9) Now we can setup our voicemail table in PostgreSQL. Log into PostgreSQL and
+10) Now we can setup our voicemail table in PostgreSQL. Log into PostgreSQL and
type (or copy and paste) the following:
--
@@ -224,7 +249,7 @@
CREATE TRIGGER vm_cleanup AFTER DELETE OR UPDATE ON voicemessages FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE vm_lo_cleanup();
-10) Just as a sanity check, make sure you check the voicemessages table via the
+11) Just as a sanity check, make sure you check the voicemessages table via the
isql utility.
[jsmith2 at localhost ODBC]$ echo "SELECT id, msgnum, dir, duration FROM voicemessages WHERE msgnum = 1" | isql testing
@@ -243,7 +268,7 @@
SQLRowCount returns 0
-11) Now we can finally configure voicemail in Asterisk to use our database.
+12) Now we can finally configure voicemail in Asterisk to use our database.
Open /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf, and look in the [general] section. I've
changed the format to gsm (as I can't seem to get WAV or wav working), and
specify both the odbc connection and database table to use.
@@ -263,7 +288,7 @@
101 => 5555,Example Mailbox
-12) Once you've updated voicemail.conf, let's make the changes take effect:
+13) Once you've updated voicemail.conf, let's make the changes take effect:
localhost*CLI> unload app_voicemail.so
== Unregistered application 'VoiceMail'
@@ -285,7 +310,7 @@
odbctest 101 Example Mailbox 0
-13) Now, let's add a new context called "odbc" to extensions.conf. We'll use
+14) Now, let's add a new context called "odbc" to extensions.conf. We'll use
these extensions to do some testing:
[odbc]
@@ -293,7 +318,7 @@
exten => 200,1,VoicemailMain(101 at odbctest)
-14) Next, we need to point a phone at the odbc context. In my case, I've got a
+15) Next, we need to point a phone at the odbc context. In my case, I've got a
SIP phone called "linksys" that is registering to Asterisk, so I'm setting its
context to the [odbc] context we created in the previous step. The relevant
section of my sip.conf file looks like:
@@ -316,7 +341,7 @@
1 sip peers [1 online , 0 offline]
-15) At last, we're finally ready to leave a voicemail message and have it
+16) At last, we're finally ready to leave a voicemail message and have it
stored in our database! (Who'd have guessed it would be this much trouble?!?)
Pick up the phone, dial extension 100, and leave yourself a voicemail message.
In my case, this is what appeared on the Asterisk CLI:
@@ -344,7 +369,7 @@
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit
-jsmith2=# SELECT * FROM voicemessages;
+asterisk=# SELECT * FROM voicemessages;
id | msgnum | dir | context | macrocontext | callerid | origtime | duration | mailboxuser | mailboxcontext | recording | label | read | sip_id | pabx_id | iax_id
----+--------+--------------------------------------------------+---------+--------------+-----------------------+------------+----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+-------+------+--------+---------+--------
26 | 0 | /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/odbctest/101/INBOX | odbc | | "linksys" <linksys> | 1167794179 | 7 | 101 | odbctest | 16599 | | f | | |
@@ -356,7 +381,7 @@
table. We can look in the large object table and verify that the object
actually exists there:
-jsmith2=# \lo_list
+asterisk=# \lo_list
Large objects
ID | Description
-------+-------------
@@ -371,7 +396,7 @@
We can also pull a copy of the voicemail message back out of the database and
write it to a file, to help us as we debug things:
-jsmith2=# \lo_export 16599 /tmp/odcb-16599.gsm
+asterisk=# \lo_export 16599 /tmp/odcb-16599.gsm
lo_export
We can even listen to the file from the Linux command line:
@@ -389,7 +414,7 @@
Done.
-16) Last but not least, we can pull the voicemail message back out of the
+17) Last but not least, we can pull the voicemail message back out of the
database by dialing extension 200 and entering "5555" at the password prompt.
You should see something like this on the Asterisk CLI:
@@ -425,3 +450,4 @@
Jared Smith
2 Jan 2006
+(updated 11 Mar 2007)
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