[Asterisk-Users] * Call Monitoring

[Daniel Corbe]

Yeah,  I'd be interested in porting your work so it runs under nagios.

Please post your results when you're finished.

-Daniel


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 02:54:22 +1100, Adam Goryachev
<mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 08:00 -0500, Daniel Corbe wrote:
> > I've got a nagios plugin making sure the * box is up, but I would like
> > to do more than that.
> >
> > I need to make sure the PRIs connected to my box stay up and I need to
> > make sure calls are not failing for any reason.  Are there any *
> > monitoring packages like this?
> 
> Interesting you should ask this today...
> 
> I got to work this morning and was wondering why some of my calls were
> still diverting to my mobile.
> 
> Eventually I realised that they were diverting on no answer. A restart
> of asterisk, reload of modules etc made no differences, I couldn't do
> anything with the line. Eventually I worked out it was a telco problem
> (no dialtone/etc) so I logged the fault. I looked at zttool and it
> showed a red alarm... In around 10-20 minutes I hacked zttool.c and
> converted it into a very basic cli version (which doesn't need newt) and
> would just dump the current status of all the spans. Similar to what you
> see on screen when you first start zttool.
> 
> Then, I threw together some simple shell scripting to analyse/send the
> report to BigBrother (www.bb4.org). So far it is working nicely, by
> tomorrow night (yes, 27 hours after reporting it) hopefully my line
> should come back, and the alarm should change to OK...
> 
> I'll put the package etc onto www.deadcat.net (BB addons website) and
> drop a post here when it is done. Will also put it onto
> www.websitemanagers.com.au/asterisk/
> 
> BTW, I did need to suid the zttool-cli command to root, as the normal BB
> user doesn't have the needed permissions. I haven't looked into this,
> but if anyone has a suggestion on a better way to do this, feel free to
> let me know.
> 
> Regards,
> Adam
> 
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