[Asterisk-Users] Polling Asterisk for Life

[Martin Joseph]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Matt wrote:

> Hi,
> Occassionally Asterisk will go down and I have to restart it.. not
> often.. but sometimes.  When it does the manager interface stops
> working, as does the CLI.
>
> My thoughts was to poll the manager interface once every 5 minutes for
> a value.  If I don't get the value back then alert me that the server
> is possibly down.<snip>

Doesn't it seem absurd to go through all these gyrations, rather then 
troubleshooting and fixing the problem?  I know you have already tried 
without success, but this seems absurd to me.

I am discomforted by the number of people saying they are rebooting 
nightly and have cron jobs to restart.