[Asterisk-Users] Monitoring B chans and G.729 High Water Marks

[Andres]

George Pajari wrote:

> In capacity planning for production Asterisk servers it is essential 
> to have an accurate statistical picture of the utilisation of finite 
> resources such as disk space, CPU utilisation, B channels on PRIs, and 
> G.729 codec licences.
>
> The first two have well defined measurement tools.
>
> The last two (B channels and G.729) can be measured in real time using 
> "show channels" and "show g729" but there appears no way to obtain 
> from Asterisk the maximum number of B channels that have been in use 
> or the maximum number of g729 codecs that have been in use. Also there 
> seem not to be any tools for collecting this information over time for 
> statistical analysis.
>
> What do people do to monitor increases in channels/g729 licences so to 
> plan ordering more of each?

You can pretty much graph this stuff with MRTG.  Take a look at: 
http://karlsbakk.net/asterisk/  for your channels, and just modify the 
code a bit for the G729 licenses output.

>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>

-- 
Andres
Network Admin
http://www.telesip.net