I think you really need to : 1. Upgrade to 4.4 2. Get a snapshot if it happens again 3. CONFIRM that your system resources are available before assuming its a sipx OR date tung. It's more likely a DOS attack and you aren't looking for it...
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Tim Byng <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning I came into work and found that I had issues with my sipXecs > instance. Here are the symptoms: > > - Web admin / user portal down > - All phones not registered to sipXecs > - sipXecs not registered to ITSP > - sipXecs machine responds to ping > - sipXecs machine is accessible through putty > > I rebooted the machine and noticed that the XFS service failed to start up. > > I figured it might be a hardware failure, so I grabbed a known working > backup and restored it on my backup machine. This backup is a disk image, > not a sipXecs backup. I have tested this procedure a number of times in the > past (even with the same backup) and it has always worked as expected. This > time, however, I ran into the exact same symptoms as I did with the primary > machine. Based on this, the chances that it's a hardware issue are low > (same symptoms with two different machines). > > The only thing that I could think of is that it had something to do with > the date and time. So I set the date in the bios to a day after the backup > was created, restored the backup again and voila, it worked! Once I set the > date back to the current date, the problem happened again. > > My sipXecs reboots once a week Monday mornings, so the date in question > was likely sometime between June 18th and 25th. > > I am using sipXecs 4.2.0. > > Does anyone have any ideas what this could be? Since it's date related, I > was thinking that maybe it could be a virus that's dormant until a certain > date? I did a search, but didn't find anything that sounded like it could > be related. I'm not too familiar with viruses on Linux (or with Linux > itself). > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 sip: [email protected] Fax: 434.465.6833 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linked-In Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tony-graziano/14/4a6/7a4 Ask about our Internet Fax services! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Using or developing for sipXecs from SIPFoundry? Ask me about sipX-CoLab 2013! <http://sipxcolab2013.eventbrite.com/?discount=tony2013%22> -- LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 sip: [email protected] Helpdesk Customers: http://myhelp.myitdepartment.net Blog: http://blog.myitdepartment.net
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