Zach Segal wrote: > Paul Chambers wrote: > >> It's probably total overkill, but nagios is a very sophisticated system >> monitoring tool. The learning curve is quite steep, but once there, >> it'll be able to monitor just about anything of concern. >> >> Paul >> > > I have to second this while acknowledging the overkill caveat. We've > got a handful of Nagios checks watching our live Asterisk box: check > that call reporting is sane and data is being imported regularly to a > mysql db, monitor astmanproxy, monitor asterisk process itself, monitor > voicemail backup system, monitor the fax printer, etc... And that's on > top of all the checks like disk space, load, and the rest of the run of > the mill metrics you tend to monitor on any Linux server. > > Most recently when we began to notice problems with our PRI it took all > of 5m to whip up a differential log file monitor using one of the > vanilla Nagios check scripts that would notify us whenever an alarm or > checksum error was detected on the circuit. > > The Nagios check scripts themselves are really simple and comprehensize > and the architecture is flexible enough to allow you to write custom > checks in whatever language you like. It can be very helpful when > you're trying to stay on top of a complex and diverse environment like a > PBX. > >
I'm a big fan of Nagios myself, but munin is quite easy to setup and has some usable asterisk plugins. (for graphs) PaulH _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
