Thanks for the input. I will explore that option.
Are there any other commercial or open-source that others like to talk about?
Or does everyone do their own scripts?
Thanks,
Bruce
> Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] What does everyone use to monitor Asterisk servers
> and routers for critical services in a 24/7 mode?
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:51:52 -0500
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> I use Cacti which is snmp based. There are plugins for asterisk but I
> recently build my centralized Cacti monitoring server and have not had the
> chance to install them yet.
>
> Cacti does pretty much all you require.
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> On 2011-01-26, at 1:45 PM, Bruce N wrote:
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> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I have been exploring and using a few monitoring tools in the past year or
> > so including (monit, monit, snmp tools, nagois) but I haven't so far found
> > a nice tool that does all I want in a nice, easy, and lightweight way.
> >
> > Mostly looking for something that has the following features:
> >
> > - Support for central management (monitor multiple Asterisk servers.
> > - Client be lightweight on the Asterisk server and have no need to open
> > ports on Asterisk server but rather send out it's stat info to the
> > Monitoring Server.
> > - Show a nice radar like display of all the Asterisk servers or overall
> > Servers temperatures into few different LCDs to give the overall picture in
> > one look.
> > - Of course be capable of alerting using at least e-mail alerts.
> > - Be opensource - only requirement for this is because I want to add
> > Asterisk phone call alerts.
> > - Can settle for commercial software as well as long as it's not a hefty
> > monthly payment but rather one time payment for license and is flexible or
> > has a good API for advancement.
> > - Be Asterisk focused. If not at least have an easy way of doing scripts to
> > monitor Asterisk server.
> > - Not be really complicated like Nagios in order to not put a lot of load
> > onto the Asterisk server.
> >
> > Please post your likes and dislikes of the tools you use or would stay away
> > from. I highly appreciate any input from experienced users and those who
> > manage multiple Asterisk server across different geographic areas.
> >
> > As an example there is: http://www.humbuglabs.org/
> > I have just came across it and it's confusing as I am not sure if it's
> > opensource or not but something similar to this would be perfect. I don't
> > think this project interests me as I think one should sign up with them in
> > order to receive service.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
