Homer and FreeSwitch?

[Antony Stone]

Hi.

I'm hoping that someone here can help me get FreeSwitch sending HEP packets to
Homer.

I've asked on the FreeSwitch forum but not had anything useful in the way of
responses. I'm sure there are people here using Homer with FreeSwitch.


I am trying to get Freeswitch (version 1.10.12, working fine for call
processing) to send HEPv3 captures to a Homer version 7 server I have set up.

I believe I have done all the necessary configuration in Freeswitch to make
this work, but it simply doesn't send any packets.

I have done the following:

1. In /etc/freeswitch/autoload_configs/sofia.conf.xml in the <global_settings>
stanza:

<param name="capture-server"
value="udp:cerberus.example.net:9060;
hep=3;
capture_id=100"/>

2. In every profile under /etc/freeswitch/sip_profiles in the <settings> stanza:

<param name="sip-capture" value="yes"/>

3. Restarted Freeswitch

4. Told Freeswitch to perform capturing:

fs_cli -x "sofia global capture on"

and for every SIP profile I have:

fs_cli -x "sofia profile XXX capture on"

Then, when calls get processed, I see no traffic on UDP port 9060 at all.

I am watching for these packets leaving the Freeswitch machine as well as
arriving on the Homer server:

# tshark -f "port 9060"

Nothing is shown.


However if I then run an sngrep command to watch the SIP traffic on the
Freeswitch machine and send HEP captures itself, I get traffic:

sngrep port 5060 -H udp:cerberus.example.net:9060 --no-interface -q

I then see packets both leaving the Freeswitch machine and arriving on the
Homer server.

I therefore conclude that:

a) I have no networking or firewalling problems

b) I have omitted some bit of magic to tell Freeswitch to send the HEP capture
itself.


Please can someone suggest what that magic might be?


Thanks,


Antony.

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[Uday kumar]

I have a Freeswitch server and it works perfectly with Homer. But I am using captagent to send logs on Homer. No changes required on Freeswitch. 

Simply follow below steps on Freeswitch server:-

After installation do modification in transport_hep.xml in /usr/local/captagent/ . 

Save the changes and start captagent by below command. 

cd /usr/src

git clone https://github.com/sipcapture/captagent.git captagent

cd captagent

./build.sh

./configure

make && make install

After installation do modification in transport_hep.xml in /usr/local/captagent/ . 

Save the changes and start captagent by below command. 

/usr/local/captagent/sbin/captagent -d

Note:- You have insttalled json-c-devel expat-devel libpcap-devel flex-devel automake libtool bison libuv-devel flex gcc make git

Enjoy.

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[naqash saeed]

Hi Antony,

Are you using this Homer wiki to install Homer? if not, use this wiki so that you have Heplify also get install.
then you can send your Hep packets to Homer using Heplify.

Regards,
Naqash

[naqash saeed]

Hi Antony,

Also please confirm what is your Freeswitch version. if you are on old one update it.
Also, use IP instead of domain in:

param name="capture-server"
value="udp:cerberus.example.net:9060;
hep=3;
capture_id=100"/>

Regards:
Naqash

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 20 February 2025 at 08:24:13, naqash saeed wrote:

> Hi Antony,
>
> Are you using this Homer wiki

> https://github.com/sipcapture/homer/wiki/Quick-Install to install Homer?

Yes.

On Thursday 20 February 2025 at 09:13:52, naqash saeed wrote:

> Also please confirm what is your Freeswitch version.

As originally stated: 1.10.12

> Also, use IP instead of domain in:
>

> param name="capture-server"
value="udp:cerberus.example.net:9060;hep=3;capture_id=100"/>

Tried that, makes no difference.

Can anyone post a known working configuration please?


Antony.

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[naqash saeed]

Which Hepagent you are using for sending traffic?

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 21 February 2025 at 16:23:41, naqash saeed wrote:

> Which Hepagent you are using for sending traffic?

I don't understand that question. I'm trying to get FreeSwitch itself to send
the traffic.

Isn't that the whole point of the following?

> <param name="capture-server"
> value="udp:cerberus.example.net:9060;hep=3;capture_id=100"/>

> <param name="sip-capture" value="yes"/>

> fs_cli -x "sofia global capture on"

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[naqash saeed]

Yeah got it. Then i think you need to confirm if your hep module is loaded correctly.

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 21 February 2025 at 16:39:02, naqash saeed wrote:

> Yeah got it. Then i think you need to confirm if your hep module is loaded
> correctly.

I'm not sure which one I should be looking for:

https://developer.signalwire.com/freeswitch/FreeSWITCH-Explained/Modules/


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