[Asterisk-Users] Polling Asterisk for Life

[Cosmin Prund]

AFAIK there are problems with repeatedly connecting and disconnecting the
manager interface. Also you're probably using a proxy (all "manager"
interfaces I've seen are using proxies), it might not be a good idea to pool
something out of the manager that often.

Did you consider running a "cron" job on the server, using "asterisk -rx" to
run a command and then decide rather asterisk is down or not based on the
result? This way you'd be doing on the server, working around the problems
with the manager interface and saving some bandwidth :). You might also be
able to call /sbin/reboot directly from the cron script!

If on the other hand the whole server is going down you may simply use ping!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 7:47 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Polling Asterisk for Life
> 
> Hi,
> Occassionally Asterisk will go down and I have to restart it.. not
> often.. but sometimes.  When it does the manager interface stops
> working, as does the CLI.
> 
> My thoughts was to poll the manager interface once every 5 minutes for
> a value.  If I don't get the value back then alert me that the server
> is possibly down.
> 
> Does anyone know what a good value to poll for might be?   I was
> thinking I could poll my SIP account for the CallWaiting value, but
> would like something that was not linked to my account.
> 
> Just something that returns a single line is fine.
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