[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Manager Interface losing events

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 09 May 2005 21:31, Geoff Nordli wrote:
> > On Monday 09 May 2005 02:46, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> > > >In addition, we should probably write it as a double buffer: 
> > > > the first for messages to be sent immediately, and the second
> > > > for messages that are sent while ->blocking is set (which is
> > > > set during all responses to an Action).  Currently, any event
> > > > which is attempted during a Response is simply dropped on the
> > > > floor, instead of being retried.
> > >
> > > Thanks for explaining that.  Now that you have confirmed why
> > > this is happening, I think the most logical solution for people
> > > wanting to use the Manager interface as-is, would be opening
> > > two connections - one for sending actions and one for reading
> > > events.  Am I correct in assuming the second connection would
> > > never miss an event?
> >
> > I'm afraid not.  The second cause of lost events was in the
> > section of the email which you chopped -- which explains that
> > Asterisk only tries to write for a limited period of time, then
> > gives up.  A buffer would help to mitigate this problem, by
> > allowing an event generator to return, even when Asterisk is not
> > immediately able to send to the remote manager (but the event is
> > queued up and reliably sent).
>
> Is it possible to configure asterisk to write all management events
> to a file?

Not currently, no.  Nothing says you couldn't build that, though.

-- 
Tilghman