[asterisk-users] Debugging Asterisk

[Valentin Bud]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> Two questions:
> 1) What do people on the list do to debug phone quality issues.  Phone
> quality seems to be a very subjective thing.  But are there metrics that you
> can work against?  Like maybe generating a tone and measuring the return
> quality etc?  It looks like all trial and error right now.  If that is the
> way it is, then fine.  But anything more accurate / scientific?
> 2) Also wondering what people do when parsing asterisk verbose output in the
> log.  Specifically, following a certain call.  Asterisk's verbose output
> logs in sequence of action, which is good, but if you have 40-50
> workstations going at once, tracking the progress of one call you are trying
> to make can be difficult.  Obviously you can follow the channel as it goes
> through.  But I am wondering if there is a smarter way, like telling
> asterisk to only log on certain numbers etc.

sip set debug peer x is used to debug on certain numbers. and another
good way of debugging is wireshark. you sniff the packets, save them
to a *.cap file and open with some wireshark that has a GUI.

v

> Any hints or tricks on this would be appreciated.
> Mikel
>
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