[Serusers] SER pa and XCAP server

[Vaclav Kubart]

Your welcome.

The new serctl is more documented in CVS, but warning - it has changed
commandline arguments since the presence snapshot was created. (The
snapshot is snapshot of source of whole SER CVS in some time, this was at
the beggining of April I think.)

Users should be added using serctl (or serweb, but I'm not familiar with
this interface). In the presence handbook is simple example of adding
users via cerctl, which should work
(ftp://ftp.iptel.org/pub/ser/presence/presence-handbook/ar01s07.html#id2798136).

You can modify the database manually, but I can't recommend it - serctl
is set of low level utilities, but it works quite well and you can write
some high level scripts above it.

	Vaclav

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:10:32PM +0100, Miguel Freitas wrote:
> Thanks for your feedback!
> 
> About the problems installing ser-0.10.99-dev35-pa-4 with gcc4, it might
> have been some libraries missing, now it's ok.
> 
> Some of my early frustrations were due to my newbie condition to SER and
> some particularities not well documented (like the serctl on the presence
> snapshot)...
> 
> I have a doubt: new users must be added to the ser DB by hand (serctl) or it
> is possible to config it on ser.cfg?
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/4/06, Vaclav Kubart <vaclav.kubart at iptel.org> wrote:
> >
> >Hi.
> >
> >On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:56:25AM +0100, Miguel Freitas wrote:
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> I'm trying to get a SER with pa, rls and mysql modules to test it as a
> >XCAP
> >> server, along with Apache2 webserver and eyeBeam softphone...
> >>
> >> At start, I ran into lots of info how to do it, and the presence
> >handbook
> >> seamed to be a good way to start.
> >> I came across http://download.dns-hosting.info/XCAP/ which could get me
> >> where I wanted (but there's no reference to which version of SER used).
> >
> >Nice page.
> >
> >>
> >> But it was only the beginning of a long and hard struggle!
> >>
> >> I downloaded the sources ser-0.10.99-dev35-pa-4 from
> >> http://ftp.iptel.org/pub/ser/presence/ but I didn't manage to install
> >it,
> >> later I realized that maybe I shouldn't be using the gcc 4.
> >
> >What problems did you have? Can you post here output of compilation?
> >
> >>
> >> So I moved on to the debian packages, but there isn't a release of the
> >rls
> >> module!
> >
> >Presence modules (new versions) are really not distributed with SER -
> >they are still "unstable" and thus they are not mixed to the rest.
> >
> >>
> >> So I moved on to the sources of the latest release, ser-0.9.6. Still no
> >rls
> >> module, I got it from ser-0.10.99-dev35-pa-4.
> >> But it has been a nightmare to config the ser.cfg because the module pa
> >> doesn't support some of the functions described on the presence
> >handbook..
> >
> >Presence handbook speaks about current presence snapshot
> >(ser-0.10.99-dev35-pa-4). And I'm afraid, that you can't mix together
> >new presence modules with old SER (use whole snapshot instead!).
> >
> >>
> >> I abandoned ser-0.10.99-dev35-pa-4 because, among other things, the tool
> >> serctl was working with the older version of the SER database (trying to
> >add
> >> new users to ser.subscriber instead of ser.credentials)
> >
> >There is new version of serctl in tools/serctl working correctly.
> >
> >>
> >> I could use some pin-points to where I should go now, if stick with
> >> ser-0.9.6 or move again to ser-0.10.99-dev35-pa-4 since it should be
> >more
> >> what I'm looking for.
> >
> >Use presence snapshot or CVS version - I recommend the snapshot, it is
> >described in presence handbook and there are samples of configuration.
> >
> >        Vaclav
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help
> >>
> >> ubuntu 5.10
> >> gcc 3.4.5
> >> MySQL 4.1.12 (libmysqlclient14-dev)
> >> Apache 2.0.54 (libapache2-mod-suphp, libapache2-mod-php4, php4-pear,
> >> php4-cgi)
> >
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