Thank you Philip and Andrew. I guess I will keep an eye on it to see if anything bad comes out of this, otherwise, ignore it. -Bruce
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:54:16 -0400 > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Restarts of B-Channels - Is it indicative of a > problem? > > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 09:35:48 am Bruce N wrote: > > I have noticed in the logs that this happened twice over the period of two > > hours last night with all 23 channels restarting on a PRI. > > Sample:[2010-04-13 04:31:28] VERBOSE[3844] logger.c: -- B-channel 0/9 > > successfully restarted on span 1 Is this something I should worry about > > and where to look for further details as to what is causing this? > > I've seen it common with carriers that they periodically restart B channels. > A couple times over two hours though is far more excessive than normal. My > experience is that they will restart them maybe once every 12-24 hours if the > provisioning tech was one of those types who likes to have the system restart > itself. Other setups NEVER restart unless there's an issue. > > Asterisk can also be programmed to restart B channels periodically, and for > the same reasons as why some provisioning agents do it. I think the default > for asterisk *used* to be every hour but I think that was dropped quite a > while ago. > > Essentially what I would do is keep an eye on it and raise a flag if there > are > dropped calls. Restarting a B channel when there aren't any calls on it > doesn't hurt anything, and as I mentioned, is a method some people use to > kind > of ensure that systems aren't sitting in a wonky state. > > -A. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > _________________________________________________________________ Live connected. Get Hotmail & Messenger on your phone. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9724462
