On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Frank @ Impact <frank@impactfax.com> wrote:

I bit off topic but…

Using FS to send calls sip to the LD carrier.

Some calls have problems where they drop the call or audio drops or whatever.

The carrier’s first response is that we dropped the call. But this is a day later after the trouble has been reported.

I am looking for guidance on how to log all sip message traffic and then be able to easily retrieve to find a call and look at what sip messages really were being based and by whom. Maybe store them in a database or some other file that might be opened by an analysis tool.

Any suggestions on how to log this information and then what tool to use for later analysis?

Jason Garland's ClueCon2009 videos about tcpdump and wireshark cover the thought of doing a rotating log file so that it captures a bunch of stuff but doesn't go over X number of megabytes... I don't recall exactly where in his videos that part appears, but here are the links to those vids. Hope it helps!
-MC