Yup.. that's the exact problem I'm having. I really can't explain what happens. If I don't restart asterisk it seems to happen after about 2 days. So I restart asterisk once a day at 3am. And it still goes down about once a month...
On 3/2/06, Joseph Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He's probably having a similar problem I had, where asterisk stops > responding to any commands at all (whether it's "bluetooth show > peers", "sip show registry", or even "stop now"; all that works is > "exit"). Well, I guess I can't say any commands at all, I haven't > tried every single one. > > I upgraded to 1.2.4 to try to resolve this problem (was running > 1.2.1). It seems to be running ok now, but has not been long enough > to tell for sure. If it messes up again, I will try to remember to > issue the command "show license". If it doesn't respond to that, then > that should be a good command to use to test if asterisk is > responding. Just grep for part of the output it should give you, and > if it's missing just killall -9 asterisk, and restart, and hopefully > it works then. You could give your script some smarts if you wanted. > If it passes the test, then the script is done. If it fails, then > kill asterisk, restart, wait an appropriate amount of time to let it > come back online fully (if it usually takes 30 seconds, give it 2 > minutes just in case, if it takes 2 minutes give it 5, etc.). > Re-issue the command, if asterisk still does not respond (possibly > killall didn't work, or there's another issue keeping asterisk from > working properly) then issue a reboot (or alternatively you could shut > down more services such as zaptel, attempt to bring it all back online > again, and if it still doesn't work then reboot; personally I'd rather > just reboot and send some kind of alert to me). > > Joseph Tanner > > On 3/2/06, Cosmin Prund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AFAIK there are problems with repeatedly connecting and disconnecting the > > manager interface. Also you're probably using a proxy (all "manager" > > interfaces I've seen are using proxies), it might not be a good idea to pool > > something out of the manager that often. > > > > Did you consider running a "cron" job on the server, using "asterisk -rx" to > > run a command and then decide rather asterisk is down or not based on the > > result? This way you'd be doing on the server, working around the problems > > with the manager interface and saving some bandwidth :). You might also be > > able to call /sbin/reboot directly from the cron script! > > > > If on the other hand the whole server is going down you may simply use ping! > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt > > > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 7:47 PM > > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > > > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Polling Asterisk for Life > > > > > > Hi, > > > Occassionally Asterisk will go down and I have to restart it.. not > > > often.. but sometimes. When it does the manager interface stops > > > working, as does the CLI. > > > > > > My thoughts was to poll the manager interface once every 5 minutes for > > > a value. If I don't get the value back then alert me that the server > > > is possibly down. > > > > > > Does anyone know what a good value to poll for might be? I was > > > thinking I could poll my SIP account for the CallWaiting value, but > > > would like something that was not linked to my account. > > > > > > Just something that returns a single line is fine. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > > > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
