Do be aware you will want this host to be absolutely fresh - don’t even bother running updates on it until after you’ve successfully installed and configured Homer (to be even safer, you might want to back this host up either as a snapshot or proper backup in case updates after installation break something). If you happened to gander at that page, the obvious path of least resistance is to stand up a fresh CentOS 7 or Debian 8 host and simply use their installer script.
That said, if you happen to be using a host that isn’t Debian 8 or CentOS 7 you can take a whirl at it based on the instructions found here.
I’ll be frank here: Homer is not easy to deploy manually, and it really gave me a whipping when I attempted it roughly half a year ago on a CentOS 6.8 host. I will not cover the configuration for each component, but the quick install script in the section below will get a base working configuration going for you: The whole of Homer will depend on the following components, some of which may require some manual configuration depending on your operating system and environment. Gracefully age dated capture data you don’t want to persist for very long (though persisting longer term can be configured very easily).More intuitively filter SIP capture data and correlate the data to the dialog/transactions each request/response is part of (this is immensely useful!).Centrally store SIP capture data across many hosts.Access singularly to retrieve SIP captures via Web UI.Homer does largely for SIP packet capture via Sipgrep (and other like applications) what Kibana does for Elasticsearch and Logstash - it provides a place to: This is especially true as SIP fundamentally has properties that make correlating requests and responses without needing complex filtering statements beyond common filters used in Wireshark such as source and destination IP. While Wireshark can be used for SIP packet capture, it can be a bit archaic plugging in increasingly complex filters on what could be a rather large capture.
With VoIP integrated into your operating infrastructure, like anything else problems can and will occur. If you work in IT support or infrastructure, you may already be familiar with a wire capture tool like Wireshark for diagnosing the many problems that can occur.
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