RECOMMENDATIONS SIP log file viewer ?

[Bradley Cooper]

Anveo gives me text files from their server that show the sip transactions on a call. Is there a Windows viewer that works with these fairly standard looking log files? I'd love to be able to see this in ladder format.

The only thing that looks different to me from other text-based sip logs is a header line containing the timestamp:

/*>>>|173.49.65.nnn:5060 @ 2014-03-06 17:52:38 */

Asterisk logs have a header that look like this:

<--- SIP read from UDP:10.10.0.207:5060 --->
I can run the log through a filter first if I need to remove or alter this line. I just need a viewer that can make ladder diagrams from text files that I can follow.

Thanks!

 

[jroper]

Hi

I might approach this in a different way.

Run...

tcpdump -w - -p -n -s 0 udp > myvoipcapure.pcap

...at the terminal. This will create a file that you can open in Wireshark, http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Wireshark can produce your ladder traces, and it can do a number of other things, like play back the audio so you can hear what a call really sounds like, this is quite useful for troubleshooting quality issues as well.

Joe

 

[Bradley Cooper]

Hi Joe and thanks for the reply. I have done as you suggest many times, or set up a separate wireshark sniffer on a spare box if needed. The issue here is that what I need to see is the traffic that the provider's server sees and they provide it to me in the text SIP transaction format. I have to believe there is a viewer that will throw this up in a ladder format and save me having to grind through it by hand. Let me know if you should stumble on anything. Thanks - Bradley

 

[briankelly63]

Might this help... I've seen a number of tools along the years some free some pay. Look closer for the pay tools that produce ladder diagrams but this one might be a start. People call them all different things so it makes the searching harder.

http://code.google.com/p/sip-viewer/

 

[Bradley Cooper]

Brian - that's a good suggestion. I think I might have seen this page but I blew right past it because I didn't see "windows". On closer inspection it should run under Windows java and may do what I need. Many thanks! --BC

 

[briankelly63]

Great! It seemed like it had the depth, capability and parsing ability which might allow it to be customized for the Anveo traces. Let me know how it works out because my primary carrier in Anveo and I'd love to look at the traces in an easier way!

 

[Bradley Cooper]

Brian- I think it will work - I have to either write a script to modify the headings or change the java to accept a different format. I will report back (prob won't be this week).- Brad

 

[briankelly63]

Glad your making progress!