[sr-dev] kamctl and sercmd unification proposal

[Klaus Darilion]

Not sure if I understood all correctly, but having common sip-router 
controlling tasks in srctl tool, and Kamailio specific provisioning 
(user provisioning, ...) tasks in kamctl is IMO a good idea.

regards
klaus

Am 24.03.2010 13:12, schrieb marius zbihlei:
> Hello,
>
> As kamailio and ser get more and more unified, sharing common modules
> and core, one of the last remaining points is the intermixed usage of
> kamctl and sercmd to setup specific parameters. One example is the cfg
> framework changes (from ser) that Kamailio 3.1.0 will bring, that will
> require the use of "sercmd" on setting specific module config params.
> The issue is that the documentation also references the "kamctl" utility
> to specify reload actions etc.
>
> What I suggest is that we strip kamctl with its fifo capabilities and
> leave it only with DB, ACL management and such(that sercmd doesn't
> provide), and use only sercmd on examples in the documentation files.
> This will require no changes to code (well some features from kamctl
> will be deprecated), but only documentation changes. This will ensure
> that documentation is kept well organized and coherent across modules.
>
> These are the modules required to use sercmd (based on functionality),
> the 4th case being the one that I am mostly interested (offers full
> access to Kamailio commands)
>
> 1. basic (required for every case - basic ser commands) :
> modules/ctl/ctl.so
> 2. configuration framework change : modules/cfg_rpc/cfg_rpc.so
> 3. fifo comands (kamctl fifo) : modules/mi_rpc/mi_rpc.so (does not
> require modules_k/mi_fifo/mi_fifo.so) In this case no kamailio core
> commands are available (like kamctl debug, kamctl uptime, kamctl which)
> Because readline is based on the which command (lists all available
> commands), no tab completion is available
> 4. all K commands : along with mi_rpc, module_k/kex/kex.so is required.
> In this case sercmd has tab completion (because core commands like which
> are available)
>
> Of course the removal of kamctl fifo commands will mean that
> module_k/mi_fifo/mi_fifo.so module will not be required anymore(But I
> strongly suggest that we keep it to allow backwards compatibility)
>
> Suggestions?!
>
> Cheers
> Marius
>
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