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This guide will help you to install Latest Kamailio SIP Server on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8 Linux server. This is part of Series tutorials on Building an Enterprise VOIP System. Kamailio is a distribution of SER and provides a scalable SIP server suitable for small through to carrier grade installations.

Features of Kamailio

Kamailio’s main advantages for use alongside Media server like Asterisk are:

  • Kamailio can handle over 5000 call setups per second.
  • Can serve up to 300,000 active subscribers with just a 4GB Ram System.
  • Clustering can easily be realized by adding more Kamailio servers

Kamailio can function as:
● Registrar server
● Location server
● Proxy server
● SIP Application server
● Redirect server

Other Features of Kamailio are:

  • NAT traversal support for SIP and RTP traffic
  • Load balancing with many distribution algorithms and
    failover support
  • Provides flexible least cost routing
  • Easy to realize routing failover
  • Support both IPv4 and IPv6
  • SCTP multi-homing and multi-streaming
  • Communication can be over UDP, TCP, TLS, and SCTP
  • Digest SIP User authentication
  • Provides event-based accounting
  • Data storage can be to database, Radius or Diameter
  • Extensible Java, Python, Lua and Perl Programming interface
  • TLS support for SIP signaling and transparent handling of SRTP for secure audio

We have tested this guide on:

  • Kamailio 5.x
  • CentOS 7 / CentOS 8

Install Kamailio SIP Server on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8

Before we dive deep into the installation process, let’s get some heads up on basics about Kamailio SIP Server.

Step 1: Set SELinux to a Permissive/Disabled mode

If you’re not SELinux lover, I recommend you put it in Permissive mode:

sudo setenforce 0
sudo sed -i 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=permissive/g' /etc/selinux/config

If you decide to permanently disable it, you’ll need to reboot your  CentOS system:

sudo setenforce 0
sudo sed -i 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/g' /etc/selinux/config
sudo reboot

After rebooting, confirm SELinux status:

$ sestatus 
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: targeted
Current mode: permissive
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Max kernel policy version: 31

Step 2: Install MariaDB Database server

Kamailio requires a database server to function. For this, we’ll use the MariaDB database server which can be installed on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8:

sudo yum -y install mariadb-server
sudo systemctl enable --now mariadb
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Step 3: Add Kamailio RPM Repository

CentOS 8:

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/kamailio.repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kamailio:/v5.3.x-rpms/CentOS_8/home:kamailio:v5.3.x-rpms.repo

As of this article update, some packages are not on CentOS 8 repository. I had to use Fedora 29 repository on CentOS 8. If the same issue happens to you, change the repository by running the commands below.

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/kamailio.repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kamailio:/v5.3.x-rpms/Fedora_29/home:kamailio:v5.3.x-rpms.repo

CentOS 7:

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/kamailio.repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kamailio:/v5.3.x-rpms/CentOS_7/home:kamailio:v5.3.x-rpms.repo

Step 4: Install Kamailio SIP Server on CentOS 8 / CentOS 7

Once the repository is added, install Kamailio SIP Server on CentOS 8 / CentOS 7 Linux.

sudo yum install vim kamailio kamailio-presence kamailio-ldap kamailio-mysql kamailio-debuginfo kamailio-xmpp kamailio-unixodbc kamailio-utils kamailio-tls kamailio-outbound kamailio-gzcompress

Dependency tree should be shown nd you can hit th y key in your keyboard to begin installation.

Dependencies resolved.
========================================================================================================================================================
 Package                           Arch                Version                                             Repository                              Size
========================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 kamailio                          x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms              5.6 M
 kamailio-debuginfo                x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms              3.8 M
 kamailio-gzcompress               x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms               19 k
 kamailio-ldap                     x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms               99 k
 kamailio-mysql                    x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms               74 k
 kamailio-outbound                 x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms               24 k
 kamailio-presence                 x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms              673 k
 kamailio-tls                      x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms              187 k
 kamailio-unixodbc                 x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms               39 k
 kamailio-utils                    x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms               37 k
 kamailio-xmpp                     x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms               53 k
Upgrading:
 vim-common                        x86_64              2:8.0.1763-13.el8                                   AppStream                              6.3 M
 vim-enhanced                      x86_64              2:8.0.1763-13.el8                                   AppStream                              1.4 M
Installing dependencies:
 mysql-common                      x86_64              8.0.17-3.module_el8.0.0+181+899d6349                AppStream                              143 k
 mysql-libs                        x86_64              8.0.17-3.module_el8.0.0+181+899d6349                AppStream                              1.2 M
 unixODBC                          x86_64              2.3.7-1.el8                                         AppStream                              458 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 kamailio-debugsource              x86_64              5.3.3-4.1                                           home_kamailio_v5.3.x-rpms              3.7 M
Enabling module streams:
 mysql                                                 8.0                                                                                             

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================================================
Install  15 Packages
Upgrade   2 Packages

Total download size: 24 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Confirm installed Kamailio version:

$ kamailio -version
version: kamailio 5.3.3 (x86_64/linux) c918a3
flags: USE_TCP, USE_TLS, USE_SCTP, TLS_HOOKS, USE_RAW_SOCKS, DISABLE_NAGLE, USE_MCAST, DNS_IP_HACK, SHM_MMAP, PKG_MALLOC, Q_MALLOC, F_MALLOC, TLSF_MALLOC, DBG_SR_MEMORY, USE_FUTEX, FAST_LOCK-ADAPTIVE_WAIT, USE_DNS_CACHE, USE_DNS_FAILOVER, USE_NAPTR, USE_DST_BLACKLIST, HAVE_RESOLV_RES, TLS_PTHREAD_MUTEX_SHARED
ADAPTIVE_WAIT_LOOPS 1024, MAX_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE 262144, MAX_URI_SIZE 1024, BUF_SIZE 65535, DEFAULT PKG_SIZE 8MB
poll method support: poll, epoll_lt, epoll_et, sigio_rt, select.
id: c918a3 
compiled on 14:32:52 Mar 16 2020 with gcc 8.2.1

Step 5: Configuring Kamailio on CentOS 8 / CentOS 7

Edit the file /etc/kamailio/kamctlrc  and make sure the DBENGINE variable is set to MySQL. Remove the pound symbol to uncomment it.

sudo vi /etc/kamailio/kamctlrc

Set Database engine to MYSQL

DBENGINE=MYSQL
DBHOST=localhost
kamailio 5 database engine

Run the command below to create users and tables needed by Kamailio ( Schema).

$ sudo kamdbctl create
MySQL password for root:
INFO: test server charset
INFO: creating database kamailio …
INFO: granting privileges to database kamailio …
INFO: creating standard tables into kamailio …
INFO: Core Kamailio tables succesfully created.
Install presence related tables? (y/n): y
INFO: creating presence tables into kamailio …
INFO: Presence tables succesfully created.
Install tables for imc cpl siptrace domainpolicy carrierroute
drouting userblacklist htable purple uac pipelimit mtree sca mohqueue
rtpproxy rtpengine secfilter? (y/n): y
INFO: creating extra tables into kamailio …
INFO: Extra tables succesfully created.
Install tables for uid_auth_db uid_avp_db uid_domain uid_gflags
uid_uri_db? (y/n): y
INFO: creating uid tables into kamailio …
INFO: UID tables succesfully created.

When asked for root password, enter the MySQL root user password as configured through mysql_secure_installation

Answer Yes to all the questions that follow. The kamdbctl create command will add two Mysql users:

kamailio: With the password.kamailiorw It has read/write access permissions to the Kamailio database.

kamailioro: The password for this user is kamailioro. It has read-only access permissions to the Kamailio database.

Next is to edit /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg to configure Kamailio:

sudo vi /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg

Add the following lines just below #!KAMAILIO.

#!define WITH_MYSQL
#!define WITH_AUTH
#!define WITH_USRLOCDB
#!define WITH_NAT
#!define WITH_PRESENCE
#!define WITH_ACCDB
kamailio configuration

Start Kamailio

sudo systemctl restart kamailio

Enable the service to start on boot:

sudo systemctl enable kamailio

That’s the end. You should now have a running Kamailio SIP server on your CentOS 8 / CentOS 7 Linux.

$ systemctl status kamailio
● kamailio.service - Kamailio (OpenSER) - the Open Source SIP Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kamailio.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-05-03 16:35:23 EAT; 12s ago
 Main PID: 9648 (kamailio)
    Tasks: 41 (limit: 24003)
   Memory: 50.0M
   CGroup: /system.slice/kamailio.service
           ├─9648 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9649 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9650 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9651 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9652 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9653 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9654 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9655 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9656 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9658 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
           ├─9659 /usr/sbin/kamailio -DD -P /var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid -f /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg -m 64 -M 4
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