[Asterisk-Users] Polling Asterisk for Life

[Joseph Tanner]

No TDM400 cards on my end (don't know what the original poster has). 
Just a simple X101P card.  It's a clone, but an exact clone (made sure
the layout was 100% the same, I have other modems with the same
chipset, but different layout, so tossed those aside).

BTW, came home tonight, and it's messed up again.  Unfortunately, it
DID respond to "show license", so that won't work.  However, it did
NOT respond to "help", so perhaps that could be used to see if it's
responding or not.  I'll try not using the Local command in my .call
file to see if there's any difference.  May be a few days until I know
though.

Joseph Tanner

On 3/2/06, Mike Clark <mike at infoanywhere.com> wrote:
> Joseph Tanner wrote:
>
> >The problem isn't that asterisk isn't running, it's that asterisk is
> >not responding.  When asterisk is in this funky state, I can still run
> >"asterisk -vvvvr" from the command line and get access to the CLI.
> >While in the CLI, the only command that asterisk will respond to is
> >"exit" which drops me back to the shell.  If I try to issue a "stop
> >now", asterisk just immediately returns to the CLI> prompt.  It does
> >this for every single command, except for "exit".
> >
> >So, simply respawning asterisk, or checking to see if it's running
> >isn't good enough, because asterisk is indeed running.  We need to
> >access asterisk and issue a command, and see if asterisk responds
> >appropriately.  If not, we can assume it has died, and we can kill it
> >off (killall -9 asterisk) and then start it back up again (or reboot
> >the whole server if necessary).
> >
> >Yes, it's an odd problem, but I've noticed it so I can confirm it is a
> >state asterisk can get into, and can confirm its symptoms.  Hopefully
> >all that is over with now after I upgraded (also fyi, I also moved my
> >x101p around so it'd get its own irq, so it's possible that was the
> >problem, though I doubt it).  If it turns out I still have the
> >problem, I'll probably whip up a script to check asterisk's condition
> >and restart if needed.
> >
> >Joseph Tanner
> >
> >
> >
> Do you happen to have TDM400 cards in your system? I have learned to set
> up any machine with TDM400 cards to do a nightly auto-reboot. If we
> don't, they will eventually exhibit behaviour identical to what  you
> describe above.
>
> Mike Clark
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