[asterisk-dev] [asterisk-users] VoIP monitoring tools

Derek Bolichowski derek at empire-team.com
Sat Oct 1 19:00:22 CDT 2016


Why not check out voipmonitor.org? Martin has built a great piece of software. If you're ok with writing a simple from end, you can use the open source version, like us. Otherwise, his paid-for GUI is really great also. 

Derek Bolichowski
Empire Communications Inc.

> On Sep 29, 2016, at 1:22 AM, Kenneth Watson <ken at ecn.co.za> wrote:
> 
> If you want to automate monitoring and validation of end-to-end call 
> functionality, you may want to look at SIPp 
> (http://sipp.sourceforge.net/), which can orchestrate calls between 
> peers via your infrastructure.
> 
> There's a hefty amount of stuff to learn, but you can get it to run 
> non-interactively, and produce CSV files containing various timers and 
> other useful information. You'll have to do a fair amount of 
> experimentation and parsing of the results files to get at the 
> information you're looking for.
> 
> 
>> On 28/09/2016 13:05, Nitesh Bansal wrote:
>> Hi Erik,
>> 
>> I would consider Icinga in future, looks a good tool.
>> But, it doesn't solve the problem, I'm facing right now, Nagios and
>> other tools, these
>> are good for monitoring.
>> I really need a tool, which can monitor SIP traffic and based on a
>> metric like (average SIP response
>> time) assign a call load score to a node and in Kamailio, I would use
>> the 'call load score'
>> in Kamailio to make my routing decision.
>> And I can't also rely on a system metric like CPU load, because that
>> will provide me input about
>> just one node, for end-to-end call routing, there are so many nodes
>> involved, that is why I'm interested
>> in a metric like 'SIP response time'.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Nitesh
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Eric Klein
>> <eric.klein at greenfieldtech.net <mailto:eric.klein at greenfieldtech.net>>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>    While I agree with Nitesh that Nagios has some great monitoring
>>    tools, I would recommend that you use Icinga 2 rather than Nagios
>>    with those plugins,
>> 
>>    Icinga has a bit more flexibility and better structure after it was
>>    forked from Nagios.
>> 
>>    We are using it to monitor everything from server status (CPU, hard
>>    disk, processes, etc.), connectivity (ping, dropped packets, etc)
>>    and Asterisk processes (number of calls, channels, etc.).
>> 
>> 
>>    --
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>>    Message: 3
>>    Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:11:41 +0200
>>    From: Nitesh Bansal <nitesh.bansal at gmail.com
>>    <mailto:nitesh.bansal at gmail.com>>
>>    To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>            <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>    <mailto:asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>>
>>    Cc: Asterisk Developers Mailing List <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>>    <mailto:asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>>
>>    Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] [asterisk-users] VoIP monitoring tools
>>    Message-ID:
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>>    Hello,
>> 
>>    Nagios is really a good tool, we are already using it to monitor
>>    Asterisk.
>>    I'm looking for something which can monitor the Asterisk and store the
>>    information
>>    somewhere in a DB, where I could retrieve it from Kamailio.
>>    I need that information in Kamailio to make routing decisions.
>> 
>>    Thanks,
>>    Nitesh
>> 
>>    On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Tech Support
>>    <asterisk at voipbusiness.us <mailto:asterisk at voipbusiness.us>>
>>    wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello;
>>> 
>>>    We?ve been using Nagios and a lot of customizations for the plugins
>>> for several years now to monitor over 1,000 metrics on each of our PBX?s.
>>> We?re in the process of GPL?ing the Asterisk plugins now. That gives us our
>>> core monitoring, notifications, event handlers, etc. To put it all
>>> together, instead of the standard static rrdtool graphs, which we thought
>>> would be a bottleneck and limit us, we?ve implemented a dynamic
>>> dashboarding system that we use to display the relevant data and to
>>> trivially create new dynamic dashboards in a matter of seconds. There is
>>> definitely no shortage of monitoring and NMS systems out there, but for us,
>>> we pretty much built this to monitor our Asterisk PBX?s. If you want to
>>> take a look at what we use, contact me offline.
>>> 
>>> Regards;
>>> 
>>> John V.
>>> 
>>> support at voipbusiness.us <mailto:support at voipbusiness.us>
>>> 
>> 
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>>        Today's Topics:
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>>           1. VoIP monitoring tools (Nitesh Bansal)
>>           2. Re: VoIP monitoring tools (Sidney VanNess)
>>           3. Re: [asterisk-users] VoIP monitoring tools (Nitesh Bansal)
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>>        Message: 1
>>        Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:33:57 +0200
>>        From: Nitesh Bansal <nitesh.bansal at gmail.com
>>        <mailto:nitesh.bansal at gmail.com>>
>>        To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>                <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
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>>        Subject: [asterisk-dev] VoIP monitoring tools
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>>        Hello all,
>> 
>>        The question isn't directly related to Asterisk, but I'm looking for
>>        recommendations
>>        for a monitoring tool to monitor the health of Asterisk
>>        instances running
>>        in Production.
>> 
>>        Ideally, the tool should be able to generate monitoring traffic
>>        (OPTIONS
>>        ping or INVITE),
>>        use the response/no response from Asterisk to store the health of an
>>        Asterisk instance running
>>        somewhere in the DB.
>> 
>>        Thanks,
>>        Nitesh Bansal
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>>        Message: 2
>>        Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 08:30:15 -0400
>>        From: Sidney VanNess <sidney at oncallcentral.com
>>        <mailto:sidney at oncallcentral.com>>
>>        To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
>>        <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>>        <mailto:asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>>
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>>        Zabbix. Call a script that generates traffic to asterisk. Catch
>>        the result. Log in Zabbix.
>> 
>>        sv
>> 
>>        On Sep 27, 2016, 4:34 AM -0400, Nitesh Bansal
>>        <nitesh.bansal at gmail.com <mailto:nitesh.bansal at gmail.com>>, wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> The question isn't directly related to Asterisk, but I'm
>>        looking for recommendations
>>> for a monitoring tool to monitor the health of Asterisk
>>        instances running in Production.
>>> 
>>> Ideally, the tool should be able to generate monitoring
>>        traffic (OPTIONS ping or INVITE),
>>> use the response/no response from Asterisk to store the health
>>        of an Asterisk instance running
>>> somewhere in the DB.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nitesh Bansal
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>>        Message: 3
>>        Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:11:41 +0200
>>        From: Nitesh Bansal <nitesh.bansal at gmail.com
>>        <mailto:nitesh.bansal at gmail.com>>
>>        To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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>>        <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
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>>        Hello,
>> 
>>        Nagios is really a good tool, we are already using it to monitor
>>        Asterisk.
>>        I'm looking for something which can monitor the Asterisk and
>>        store the
>>        information
>>        somewhere in a DB, where I could retrieve it from Kamailio.
>>        I need that information in Kamailio to make routing decisions.
>> 
>>        Thanks,
>>        Nitesh
>> 
>>        On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Tech Support
>>        <asterisk at voipbusiness.us <mailto:asterisk at voipbusiness.us>>
>>        wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello;
>>> 
>>>    We?ve been using Nagios and a lot of customizations for
>>        the plugins
>>> for several years now to monitor over 1,000 metrics on each of
>>        our PBX?s.
>>> We?re in the process of GPL?ing the Asterisk plugins now. That
>>        gives us our
>>> core monitoring, notifications, event handlers, etc. To put it all
>>> together, instead of the standard static rrdtool graphs, which
>>        we thought
>>> would be a bottleneck and limit us, we?ve implemented a dynamic
>>> dashboarding system that we use to display the relevant data
>>        and to
>>> trivially create new dynamic dashboards in a matter of
>>        seconds. There is
>>> definitely no shortage of monitoring and NMS systems out
>>        there, but for us,
>>> we pretty much built this to monitor our Asterisk PBX?s. If
>>        you want to
>>> take a look at what we use, contact me offline.
>>> 
>>> Regards;
>>> 
>>> John V.
>>> 
>>> support at voipbusiness.us <mailto:support at voipbusiness.us>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *From:* asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
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>>        *On Behalf Of *Nitesh Bansal
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:34 AM
>>> *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion;
>>        Asterisk
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>>> *Subject:* [asterisk-users] VoIP monitoring tools
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> The question isn't directly related to Asterisk, but I'm
>>        looking for
>>> recommendations
>>> 
>>> for a monitoring tool to monitor the health of Asterisk
>>        instances running
>>> in Production.
>>> 
>>> Ideally, the tool should be able to generate monitoring
>>        traffic (OPTIONS
>>> ping or INVITE),
>>> 
>>> use the response/no response from Asterisk to store the health
>>        of an
>>> Asterisk instance running
>>> 
>>> somewhere in the DB.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Nitesh Bansal
>>> 
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