Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder (Claude Hayn

2011-07-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:57 +0100, Paul Hayes wrote: > On 27/07/11 19:41, Claude Hayn wrote: > > > > The office manager freaks out each time and starts randomly rebooting > > devices in no particular order including the UPS, PBX, Asterisk Gateway, > > firewall and router. > > > > Ahh that old ches

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder (Claude Hayn

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hayes
On 27/07/11 19:41, Claude Hayn wrote: The office manager freaks out each time and starts randomly rebooting devices in no particular order including the UPS, PBX, Asterisk Gateway, firewall and router. Ahh that old chestnut. That's never a good thing, try to tell them not to do this, althou

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

2011-07-27 Thread Stuart Elvish
Hi Claude, We noticed a little while ago (and again just recently) that some of our Asterisk boxes after a "proper" restart (shutdown -r now) weren't processing calls correctly (some call types did work, some didn't). One thing that fixed the problem quickly was to issue an "asterisk -rx dialplan

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder (Claude Hayn

2011-07-27 Thread Steve Edwards
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Don Kelly wrote: My wild guess is that the “old/tired PBX” is actually looking at the T1 before the Asterisk system is ready. If you can sneak in in the wee hours to simulate a power failure and bring one up at a time, you may be able to determine a power-up sequence that

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder (Claude Hayn

2011-07-27 Thread Don Kelly
From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Claude Hayn Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:42 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder (Claude Hayn Thank you all for your replies

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

2011-07-27 Thread Robert-iPhone
gerbals Sent from my iPhone On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:44 -0400, Claude Hayn wrote: >> We are frequently losing power during lightning storms. (Yes we have >> UPS, but often by the time power comes back up the UPS has run out of >> juice) >> >

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

2011-07-27 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:44 -0400, Claude Hayn wrote: > We are frequently losing power during lightning storms. (Yes we have > UPS, but often by the time power comes back up the UPS has run out of > juice) > > > Does anyone know of a solution for this issue? Having to get up in > the late nigh

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder (Claude Hayn

2011-07-27 Thread Claude Hayn
Thank you all for your replies. I am just starting to use message boards and really appreciate the fact that people jump in an effort to help. As I'm learning, I'm hopeful to be able to help other folks down the road. Judging by the responses I should have provided more details, includ

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

2011-07-27 Thread Robert Huddleston
eck that file. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Danny Nicholas Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:14 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

2011-07-27 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
On 07/27/2011 10:13 AM, Danny Nicholas wrote: This is the “right” idea – have your UPS write “power loss shutdown” when it has to stop the machine, then check for that when you come back up and reboot when you see it (of course you would need to log something else to prevent a loop of reboots).

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

2011-07-27 Thread Danny Nicholas
asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Robert Huddleston Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:05 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder Maybe write a cludgy init.d s

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

2011-07-27 Thread Andrew Latham
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Claude Hayn wrote: > We are frequently losing power during lightning storms.  (Yes we have UPS, > but often by the time power comes back up the UPS has run out of juice) > > We are using Asterisk with a T1/PRI card as a front end connected to our > PBX.  Whenever t

Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

2011-07-27 Thread Robert Huddleston
/sbin/shutdown -r -n now end if From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Claude Hayn Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:44 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder We are freq

[asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder

2011-07-27 Thread Claude Hayn
We are frequently losing power during lightning storms. (Yes we have UPS, but often by the time power comes back up the UPS has run out of juice) We are using Asterisk with a T1/PRI card as a front end connected to our PBX. Whenever there is a power outage both the Asterisk box and the PBX au