You need to install Debian 10 (buster) 64-bit on the server. A basic installation without any additional task selection (like Desktop System, Web Server etc.) is sufficient.

apt-get remove --purge mysql-common ndn-apache22
mv /etc/apt/preferences /etc/apt/preferences.bak
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Download and install the latest Sipwise C5 installer package:

PKG=ngcp-installer-mr8.5.3.deb
wget http://deb.sipwise.com/spce/${PKG}
dpkg -i ${PKG}

Run the installer as root user:

ngcp-installer

The installer will ask you to confirm that you want to start the installation. Read the given information carefully, and if you agree, proceed with y.

The installation process will take several minutes, depending on your network connection and server performance. If everything goes well, the installer will (depending on the language you use), show something like this:

Installation finished. Thanks for choosing Sipwise C5 Community Edition.
Please reboot the server to continue with the configuration.

During the installation, you can watch the background processing by executing the following command on a separate console:

tail -f /var/log/ngcp-installer.log

After the installation has finished successfully and the server gets rebooted it is necessary to perform the initial configuration:

screen -S ngcp
ngcp-initial-configuration

The tool will ask you to confirm the network configuration which is based on the current one. Read carefully the information printed on screen, and if you agree, proceed by typing y. If you want to change these parameters, you can edit the file /etc/ngcp-installer/config_deploy.inc and adjust the variables with the desired values.

If everything goes well, you should see the message:

System was successfully configured, now you have the best VoIP software.

Vagrant is an open-source software for creating and configuring virtual development environments. Sipwise provides a so called Vagrant base box for your service, to easily get direct access to your own Sipwise C5 Virtual Machine without any hassles.

Get your copy of Sipwise C5 by running:

vagrant init spce-mr8.5.3 https://deb.sipwise.com/spce/images/mr8.5.3/sip_provider_CE_mr8.5.3_vagrant.box
vagrant up

As soon as the machine is up and ready you should have your local copy of Sipwise C5 with the following benefits:

Use the following command to access the terminal:

vagrant ssh

or login to Administrator web-interface at https://127.0.0.1:1443/login/admin (with default user administrator and password administrator).

There are two ways to access VM resources, through NAT or Bridge interface:

VM IP address (a.b.c.d), as well as SIP credentials will be printed to terminal during "vagrant up" stage, e.g.:

[20_add_sip_account] Adding SIP credentials...
[20_add_sip_account]   - removing domain 192.168.1.103 with subscribers
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding domain 192.168.1.103
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991002@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991002)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991003@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991003)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991004@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991004)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991005@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991005)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991006@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991006)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991007@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991007)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991008@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991008)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991009@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991009)
[20_add_sip_account] You can USE your VM right NOW:  https://192.168.1.103:1443/login/admin

To turn off your Sipwise C5 virtual machine, just type:

vagrant halt

To completely remove Sipwise C5 virtual machine, use:

vagrant destroy
vagrant box remove spce-mr8.5.3

Further documentation for Vagrant is available at the official Vagrant website.

Vagrant usage tips:

  vagrant ssh-config

  systemctl start vboxadd-service.service vboxadd.service
  ngcpcfg set /etc/ngcp-config/config.yml "systemd.custom_preset=['vboxadd-service.service', 'vboxadd.service']"
  ngcpcfg apply "Start VirtualBox Guest Additions on boot"

You can download a VirtualBox image from here (checksums: sha1, md5). Once you have downloaded the file you can import it to VirtualBox via its import utility.

The format of the image is ova. If you have VirtualBox 3.x running, which is not compatible with ova format, you need to extract the file with any tar compatible software and import the ovf file which is inside the archive.

On Linux, you can do it like this:

tar xvf sip_provider_CE_mr8.5.3_virtualbox.ova

On Windows, right-click on the ova file, choose Open with and select WinZIP or WinRAR or any other application able to extract tar archives. Extract the files to any place and import the resulting ovf file in VirtualBox.

Considerations when using this virtual machine:

You can download a VMware image from here (checksums: sha1, md5). Once you have downloaded the file just extract the zip file and copy its content to your virtual machines folder.

Considerations when using this virtual machine:

Sipwise provides AMI (Amazon Machine Images) images in all Amazon EC2 regions for the latest and LTS Sipwise C5 releases. Please find the appropriate AMI ID for your region in release announcement.

As a next step please visit https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=eu-west-1 with your EC2 account.

Choose "Launch Instance":

Figure 3. Launch Amazon EC2 Instance for your region

Select "Community AMIs" option, enter "ami-8bef6cfc" inside the search field and press "Select" button:

Figure 4. Choose an image (different for each region)

Select the Instance Type you want to use for running Sipwise C5 (recommended: >=4GB RAM):

Figure 5. Choose Amazon EC2 instance

Run through next configuration options

Figure 6. Configure Security Group

Finally review instance in the last step (Review Instance Launch) and press Launch button.

Choose an existing key pair which you want to use for logging in, or create a new one if you don’t have one.

Figure 7. Choose a key pair to access the system

You should have a running instance after a few seconds/minutes now (check DNS name/IP address).

Figure 8. Running Amazon EC2 Sipwise C5 instance

First step should be logging in to the Admin panel (username administrator, password administrator) and changing the default password: https://$DNS:1443/login/admin and then follow Section 17, “Platform Security, Performance and Troubleshooting” to secure your installation.

Logging in via SSH should work now, using the key pair name (being sip-provider-ce.pem as $keypair in our example) and the DNS name/IP address the system got assigned.

ssh -i $keypair.pem admin@$DNS

Now you can increase your privileges to user root for further system configuration:

sudo -s

Don’t forget to add the Advertised IP for kamailio lb instance, since it’s required by the Amazon EC2 network infrastructure:

ngcp-network --set-interface=eth0 --advertised-ip=<your_public_amazon_ip>

and apply your changes:

ngcpcfg apply 'add advertised-ip on interface eth0'

Now feel free to use your newly started Amazon EC2 Sipwise C5 instance!