On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 11:14 -0400, Raymond Dans wrote:
> XECS-1680 deals with Call records still showing active in the GUI after
> the call has been abandoned.
> 
> This issue has opened up other potential problems with how Call State
> Events (CSE) are being generated in the Proxy.  
> 
> The CSE generation in the Proxy is stateless so it only relies on the
> information in the current SIP message to determine whether or not to
> generate a new CSE.  
> 
> At present, for SIP errors (i.e. >= 400), it will only generate a
> failure CSE if the error is from an INVITE and the error is not 401
> (Unauthorized), 407 (Proxy Authorization Required) or 408 (Request
> Timeout).  Although this does trap most of the cases, it will not
> properly generate CSEs for errors that are important in the case of a
> re-Invite which will affect the call. In RFC 3261 section 12.2.1.12, it
> states that on requests within a dialog that receive a 408 (Request
> Timeout) or 481 (Transaction doesn't exist), the dialog should be
> terminated (i.e. the call torn down).  In this particular case a call
> failure CSE should be generated but it isn't because we are stateless
> and we can't tell whether or not we're in a dialog.
> 
> I would like to propose that for CSE generation, that if we get any SIP
> error (i.e. >=400) from an INVITE (or re-invite), that we generate a
> CSE.  Determination (from the point of view of CDR records) of how this
> affects the call will then be handled in the CDR record generation which
> does maintain state information on the call (based on all of the CSEs
> for that call).  This would then allow CDR to generate failure records
> in cases when no dialog existed (i.e. call not established) and in cases
> when the call was established and failed on a re-invite. 
> 
> FYI - the negative impact to this proposal is that more CSEs will be
> generated but because its only on error conditions that are from
> INVITEs, I don't believe it would be much of a database or processing
> hit.
> 
> Any objections to adding some smarts in the CDR area to examine and
> understand SIP error messages as opposed to the Proxy CSE doing it?

That seems reasonable.  I think we could still not log a CSE for the 407
challenges, but it's not a big difference so if you'd rather just log
them all, go ahead.



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