[Asterisk-Users] Nagios/measurement with Asterisk - any plugins?

[John Todd]

   I have spent some time digging through the archives for comments 
concerning Asterisk and monitoring systems, and I have found few 
results.

check_asterisk.pl.gz (http://www.dynx.net/ASTERISK/misc-progs/) which 
gives an error on download, and has no further Google references

astping.tar (http://www.dynx.net/ASTERISK/misc-progs/ and also in the 
mailing list archives) supposedly sends a query to an Asterisk 
server, but I have been unable to get it to do anything other than 
reply with the IP address of the queried host (regardless of Asterisk 
status)

   If anyone has any home-brew Nagios (or other) tools that they might 
want to submit, we'll all applaud you and throw virtual flowers at 
you.

   Additionally, the topic of measurement has come up again.  I would 
rather use someone else's generously donated code than write my own 
and donate it, since the latter method is somewhat slower.  :-)  I'm 
looking for perhaps a post-processing script that groks Asterisk CDRs 
and/or mysql/ODBC tables.  Upon launch (with the correct timeframes) 
the script would churn through the last N records until it was in the 
right time range.  Then, it would create some short status reports on 
a variety of topics, ranging from number of calls,  number of 
minutes, outbound calls (per some "group" function), inbound calls 
(per some "group" function), errors, protocols, etc. etc.  This would 
be fed into RRDTool or something of the sort.

   Anyone? (yes, yes, I should do it myself, but why do something that 
someone has already done?)

JT