Practical VoIP Using VOCAL

Starting, Restarting, and Stopping VOCAL

This section describes how to start, restart, or stop VOCAL on a deployed system.

Syntax for Restarting, Starting, and Stopping

There are three methods for starting, stopping, and restarting servers:

• Using the SNMP GUI (as explained in Chapter 17)

• Using vocalstart

• Using direct command-line instructions

Using vocalstart

The syntax for restarting, starting, or stopping is:

/usr/local/vocal/bin/vocalstart [command] [server type or port number]

where:

• [command] can be restart, start, or stop.

• (Optional) [server type] can be rs, ms, fs, js, cdr, net, vm, pd, or hs:

  rs = Redirect server

  ms = Marshal server

  fs = Feature server

  js = JTAPI Feature server

  cdr = Call Detail Record server

  net = Network Management Station

  vm = Voice Mail server

  pd = Policy server

  hs = Heartbeat server

• (Optional) [port number] is the port number used by the server.

Some examples of this command in use:

1. This starts all VOCAL servers:

   ./vocalstart start

2. This stops just the Redirect server:

   ./vocalstart stop rs

3. This stops just the User Agent Marshal server:

   ./vocalstart stop 5060

4. 5060 is the default IP port number for SIP, and it is normally assigned to the UA Marshal server. You can check the vocal.conf file (/usr/local/vocal/etc/vocal.conf) for the port numbers of the other servers.

Using the command line

Many developers would rather type their own options than use the vocalstart script. If you use a direct command, you must start the Provisioning server before starting the other VOCAL ...