Suggestion for outline of new SER reference manual

Table of contents

1. Introduction to this reference manual who?
2. How SER and ser.cfg works (from SER Getting Started) Greger
   1. SER Architecture and ser.cfg
      1. Core and Modules
      2. ser.cfgs Seven Sections
      3. Transactions, Dialogs, and Sessions
      4. Understanding Message Processing in ser.cfg
   2. Stateful vs. stateless
   3. Understanding SIP and RTP
   4. Back-end applications and B2BUA
   5. NAT, STUN, and RTP proxy
      1. Registration behind NAT
      2. INVITEs behind NAT
      3. STUN
      4. Other non-ser NAT traversal techniques
   6. URI, R-URI, and Branches
3. Programming in SER
   1. Overview of ser.cfg language Martin?
   2. Basic language who?
      1. Seven sections of ser.cfg (from SER - Getting Started)
      2. if - testing
      3. routes - execution flow
   3. Accessing information in SIP messages using selects Martin
   4. Storing information in variables (aka attribute/value pairs) Martin
      1. Scope of variables (per transactions) Martin
      2. Retrieving configuration information from a database Martin
4. SER's Management interface who?
   1. About the command interface
   2. Various methods for accessing the command interface
      1. Unix socket
      2. TCP/IP
      3. XML-RPC
5. The UAC (client) function of the management interface who?
   1. What is the UAC function?
   2. Using the UAC function from an external application
   3. How SEMS uses the UAC function
6. Reference (mainly a consolidation job) Greger
   1. How documentation is built up (parameters, functions, selects, and management commands under each module + ref. to online search tool)
   2. Core functions (NOTE!! use old admin guide and create like a module doc) HELP DEARLY NEEDED
   3. Modules (NOTE!! Consolidate current module documentation)