Is this something you could use netflow/sFlow to monitor? Also, this looks like an interesting slide deck from someone who has also thought about this problem:
http://luca.ntop.org/OpenSourceVoipMonitoring.pdf --Matt On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Evan Pettrey <jepett...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings folks, > > I'm currently in the process of trying to put in place better proactive > monitoring of our VoIP environment and I'm hoping to tap into the wisdom of > some of you that have more experience with this than myself. > > The challenge that we're running into is that there are simply so many > different things to monitor and it's not something that is on/off or that > relies solely on hardware utilization to fire off alerts. Currently we > typically don't know there is a problem until users report that audio on > their calls is dropping in and out. > > Essentially we need to be able to monitor SIP and RTP traffic flow > end-to-end to be alerted when there is jitter or anything else that could > affect call quality. This should include (but may not be limited to): > > - *Internal Network - *Juniper hardware (I've come across some really > good VoIP monitoring tools like the one available from Solarwinds but they > require Cisco hardware) > > - *VoIP Servers - *Running Asterisk 1.8 > > - *SIP Trunks - *We have limited ability to monitor traffic once it > hits our SIP trunks so this poses a challenge but it needs to be monitored > nonetheless > > > We've set things up like Homer <http://www.sipcapture.org/> and while > that is a great tool for retroactively troubleshooting issues reported it > does not do much to alert us to problems proactively. > > > Any guidance here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! > > > Best, > Evan > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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