[Asterisk-Dev] Like a Heartbeat for *

[John Todd]

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>From: <timecop at pbx.mine.nu>
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>Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:46 PM
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Like a Heartbeat for *
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>>  How about writing a module for asterisk that provides critical system data
>>  via snmp?
>>
>>  Then you can query it using any of the various snmp tools, and provide
>>  alerts/etc when things break and such...
>>
>>  Not that I'm volunteering to add such a thing or anything ~
>>
>  > Tim

>Good idea. At least to start :)
>
>Perhaps Mark can give us a hand (I hope).
>


I think Mark is pretty full at the moment with other tasks.  I 
suspect strongly that this won't go very far without some other 
C-skilled person taking the flag and going somewhere with it, at 
least writing a document as to what and how things would be 
monitored.  Mark would obviously be involved heavily in it, but what 
you're talking about is an extremely large-scale set of patches and 
associated testing.

Plus, are there BSD-licensed SNMP libraries?  (I don't remember if 
the CMU/Net-SNMP stuff is or not.)  Recall that anything going into * 
must be disclaimed or licensed in such a way that it is public domain.

Alternately, if this is a worthwhile enough set of ideas, and you all 
have $$$ floating around because of all the dough you saved 
implementing Asterisk instead of proprietary systems, you might 
consider all putting your cash towards paying someone to implement 
it.  (Not me: I'm C-ignorant.)

I'm not being snippy or anything: I'm just being realistic. There are 
lots of great ideas that can/should/could/might be done with 
Asterisk, but even the trivial feature additions are now starting to 
take a while to show up.  Put your money where your mouth is, and 
maybe with the combined investment something might get done.  I would 
love to have some measurable stats out of Asterisk, and I'd be 
willing to throw a few bucks towards the effort.

JT