[asterisk-users] OT, free software for SIP ladder diagrams?

[Tim Nelson]

----- Original Message -----
> > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Steve Edwards
> > <asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
> 
> >> I was debugging a turnup with Global Crossing the other day and
> >> they
> >> presented me with a web page that displayed a 'ladder diagram' of a
> >> call including a ton of detail all neatly organized in tabs and
> >> links
> >> so you could drill down to any level of detail needed.
> >>
> >> The copyright notice says 'Copyright© 2008 Empirix.'
> >>
> >> Is there any free software available to analyze a pcap or similar
> >> packet dump with similar features?
> 
> On Tue, 17 May 2011, Andrew Latham wrote:
> 
> > I think there are some, I saw one mentioned on the BACNet mailing
> > list... ahh yes http://cloudshark.org/ takes tshark and wireshark
> > uploads... close to what you are looking for...
> 
> Thanks, but not unless I've missed a lot on first glance.
> 
> Cloudshark looks like an online simplified version of wireshark.
> 
> The Empirix product provides a much higher level overview as well as
> allowing you to drill down if needed. The Empirix product appears to
> be
> much more oriented towards analyzing the life of a call rather than
> every
> packet on the wire.
> 

While not free, VQManager [1] has what you want. A few of my customers are running this with their VoIP switching platforms (mostly Asterisk based). It works great and my experience with it has been fantastic.

--Tim

[1] http://www.manageengine.com/products/vqmanager/