Kamailio has three inbuilt tools that can be used to manage and configure Kamailio. Although there are several commands within these tools, I am going to describe the most useful of them all.
KAMCTL
Common Commands:
| Command | Description |
| kamctl ul show | User location in memory (registered users) |
| kamctl ul show –brief | Show in-RAM online users in short format |
| kamctl address dump | Address table data in cache |
| kamctl address show | Address table data in DB |
| kamctl db show <tablename> | Show database table |
| kamctl start | Start kamailio |
| kamctl stop | Stop kamailio |
| kamctl restart | Restart kamailio |
| kamctl add <username> <password> | Add a new subscriber to the database |
| kamctl show <username> | Show subscriber attributes |
| kamctl passwd <username> <password> | Change user’s password |
| kamctl rm <username> | Delete a user |
| kamctl address reload | Reload address records from database into memory |
| Kamctl dispatcher reload | Reload dispatcher records from database into memory |
KAMDBCTL
| Command | Description |
| kamdbctl create | creates a new database |
| kamdbctl backup | dumps current database to file |
| kamdbctl presence | adds the presence related tables |
| kamdbctl extra | adds the extra tables |
| kamdbctl dbuid | adds the uid tables |
| kamdbctl grant | grant privileges to database |
| kamdbctl revoke | revoke privileges to database |
KAMCMD
| Command | Description |
| kamcmd help or kamcmd ? or kamcmd system.listMethods | list all methods that can be used with kamcmd. We can use grep to filter the output. |
| kamcmd dmq.list_nodes | list members of the DMQ node |
| kamcmd core.sockets_list | list all the listener sockets |
| kamcmd core.uptime | Kamailio uptime |
| kamcmd rtpengine.show all | show status of all rtpengine nodes |
| kamcmd rtpengine.enable all 1 | enable all rtpengine nodes |
| kamcmd rtpengine.enable udp:192.168.2.133:8081 1 | enable one rtpengine nodes |
| kamcmd rtpengine.reload | Reloads the database node table content if configured |
| kamcmd dlg.list | Lists the description of all dialogs (active calls) |
| kamcmd dlg.stats_active | Get stats about active dialogs by scanning internal list of dialogs |
For an exhaustive list of kamcmd commands please check my github repositiry here
There is also a python based tool called kamcli which is a modern version to the bash based kamctl . To know more about it and how to use it, please visit the github page https://github.com/kamailio/kamcli/blob/master/README.md
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