[asterisk-biz] Monitoring needs for Asterisk?

[Ivan Fetch]

Hi Jay,

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:43:25AM -0600, Ivan Fetch wrote:
> >    I'm going to develop some Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) plugins for
> > monitoring production Asterisk installations, and I'd like for the plugins
> > to be as useful to others as possible.  I've taken a look at the
> > "Monitoring Asterisk" voip-info.org page, but I'm curious about the
> > current state of need for monitoring.  Does anyone have current issues
> > which you'd like to monitor for; things which have really ripped the
> > proverbial table cloth out from under the PBX?
>
> That sounds like an altogether excellent idea.  (Though I haven't ever
> implemented Nagios, it's really cool looking.  :-)
>
> Seems to me that you need to know all the things the core modules will
> already tell you about the host machine, plus whether the Asterisk
> instance is still alive (open a port to it's CLI and try to NOOP it?),
> whether you can open new connections to it on each of the configured
> interfaces, how many incoming and outgoing calls have moved in a given
> time period (with changeable alert thresholds by daypart), and,
> assuming you can reach it, the status of any T-1 or E-1 interfaces it
> depends on.
>
> And, I suppose, accessibility to any VoIP service servers that the
> server depends on.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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   Thanks for your suggestions.  It looks like I need to work on a generic
nagios plugin which connects to the Asterisk manager Interface (or a proxy
for the AMI).  Even though parsing logs or output from running `asterisk
-r' would be easier in the beginning, I think using the AMI would be
easier on Asterisk and more of a "standard way of doing things."


- ivan.