On Monday 05 March 2007 10:21 am, John Van Ostrand wrote: > We have a customer who is concerned about stability on their system. We > have had cases in the past where lines have refused to take calls. From > Asterisk the lines looked unused and there were no indication that > Asterisk was seeing any activity on the dead lines. Those cases were > resolved via a driver upgrade which subsequently has been causing system > hangs every month or so. They are gun shy and are looking for a way to > actively monitor the health of their analog ports. This is something > that I would like to put in place at other customers too. > > The customer in question uses a Sangoma A200, but other similar > customers use the Digium TDM400. > > Does anyone know of a way, outside of Asterisk, to monitor the health of > those devices?
Short of offering a service that periodically calls and alerts if there is no pickup, I can't think of any. You could also try having the system call out one port and see if the call comes in correctly, but I'm not sure how many available lines there are, and if the periodic callout "fixes" the issue too. -A.
