Hi Jay, On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:43:25AM -0600, Ivan Fetch wrote: > > I'm going to develop some Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) plugins for > > monitoring production Asterisk installations, and I'd like for the plugins > > to be as useful to others as possible. I've taken a look at the > > "Monitoring Asterisk" voip-info.org page, but I'm curious about the > > current state of need for monitoring. Does anyone have current issues > > which you'd like to monitor for; things which have really ripped the > > proverbial table cloth out from under the PBX? > > That sounds like an altogether excellent idea. (Though I haven't ever > implemented Nagios, it's really cool looking. :-) > > Seems to me that you need to know all the things the core modules will > already tell you about the host machine, plus whether the Asterisk > instance is still alive (open a port to it's CLI and try to NOOP it?), > whether you can open new connections to it on each of the configured > interfaces, how many incoming and outgoing calls have moved in a given > time period (with changeable alert thresholds by daypart), and, > assuming you can reach it, the status of any T-1 or E-1 interfaces it > depends on. > > And, I suppose, accessibility to any VoIP service servers that the > server depends on. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > Designer Baylink RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 > St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 > > "That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later, > they stop having sex with you." -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_ > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > Thanks for your suggestions. It looks like I need to work on a generic nagios plugin which connects to the Asterisk manager Interface (or a proxy for the AMI). Even though parsing logs or output from running `asterisk -r' would be easier in the beginning, I think using the AMI would be easier on Asterisk and more of a "standard way of doing things." - ivan. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
