On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 01:30 +0100, Dan Journo wrote: > Hello, > > > > I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way to > automatically monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly > available and processing calls. > <snip> > It depends on how deep and far you want to go. As already mentioned, Nagios will do a nice job of letting you know SIP is responding and is an all around excellent product.
Despite our familiarity with Nagios, we've been taking the plunge into OpenNMS. It is much, much, much more difficult to set up for Asterisk monitoring and is an enormous product. On the other hand, it gives you access into the entire Asterisk SNMP MIB, does an outstanding job of collecting and presenting statistics for all channels (not just SIP - Nagios could theoretically expose the entire MIB but I don't know that anyone has written such a plugin and doing it via the SNMP plugin alone would be difficult at best). We were very keen to track much more data than Nagios gave us in order to tweak, troubleshoot, and diagnose our services. Hence the investment in learning OpenNMS. Once you get past the huge learning curve of OpenNMS, it is a remarkably powerful product. There was a flurry of queries regarding the specifics of setting up Asterisk monitoring on the OpenNMS mailing list just a couple of days ago and another string on monitoring SIP a couple of weeks ago. Hope this helps - John -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular society _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 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