Incorrect "Session Duration Time"

[inatelso]

Hi Homer Team,

We installed Homer v7 on CentOS 7 (Docker install), and our heplify client is an Asterisk v15.7.2, also on CentOS 7. This asterisk acts as a proxy, receives calls from others Asterisk (same LAN), and forward these calls to VoIP Providers (through Internet). The Homer works fine, but I see many calls with long duration (for example more than 600 seconds), with 'Session Duration Time' equals as 520–530 seconds maximum.

I reviewed the flow, and it isn't complete. Some calls don't have the BYE, 200 (SDP) or ACK. So, I understand that Asterisk (heplify client) doesn't send the SIP packet or SIP packets are lost. Another reason can be the high traffic supported by the Asterisk (more than 400 000 calls per day). I supposed.

Any recommendation or action to take?

I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely

Mauro

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[lmangani]

If you have packet loss and you are aware of it, troubleshooting errors in homer will be biased.
I would suggest switching your heplify to deliver packets using tcp and see if you get a more reliable situation.
once you have all messages, make sure you take query limit into account for session returning a large number of messages.

[inatelso]

Hi Lorenzo,

I found these lines in heplify.log:
2023/08/10 12:42:01.536230 sniffer.go:535: INFO Stats {received dropped-os dropped-int}: {17259721 0 0}
2023/08/10 12:42:01.536302 util.go:100: INFO Packets since last minute IPv4: 6035, IPv6: 0, UDP: 5957, TCP: 0, SCTP: 0, RTCP: 3000, RTCPFail: 3, DNS: 0, HEP: 0, duplicate: 0, fragments: 0, unknown: 6
2023/08/10 12:42:02.854794 publisher.go:63: INFO Packets since last minute sent: 6042

What's the meaning of 'RTCPFail' and 'unknown'?

About packets using tcp, how can I do that?

Sincerely,
Mauro

[inatelso]

Hi,

I've configured the heplify to deliver packets using tcp. But, the homer doesn't show all flow sip, the majority of cases are without BYE. My question is, what parameter establish the value of the session duration time? If the calls don't have the method BYE.

Mauro

[lmangani]

homer does not track sessions and only estimates the session duration based on the signaling events it has available. No BYE means no way to calculate a duration, so that's the challenge you have to address. If you have very long duration calls or lots of messages increase the limit values..

[inatelso]

I understood, Lorenzo. I'm going to do a lab. Any comment or information, I write again. Thanks!

Mauro