[asterisk-users] HA - How to detect software failure?

[Matt Riddell]

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Yann JOUANIN wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
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> I would like to have your opinion about the best way to detect a asterisk
> failure, I mean when asterisk stop working but the process keep existing.

There's a few ways you could do it.

Something like:

asterisk -rx 'iax2 show peers' | wc -l

Would count the number of iax peers (assuming the command didn't return
if asterisk wasn't working).

Or you could connect to the manager interface on port 5038 and issue a
few commands:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+manager+API

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Kind Regards,

Matt Riddell
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