[Asterisk-Users] Span monitoring

[Steve Underwood]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

>Wai Wu wrote:
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>>Does Asterisk have builtin (T1 or E1) span monitoring? If a span goes
>>down, will asterisk know about it. Personally, I would like to have a
>>event generated through the Manager API interface.
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>Have you actually tried this? It takes all of about 10 seconds to answer
>this question yourself... In any case, yes, Asterisk will know that all
>the B channels went into alarm, and if a PRI is in use on that span,
>that the D channel also went into alarm. It does not have a concept of a
>'span' though.
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>I don't believe there is currently an AMI event generated for Zap
>channel alarms, but it would certainly be trivial to add one.
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With the old E400 and T400 cards you get monitoring for flaky lines - 
CRC errors, framing errors and so on. Those are not implemented for the 
newer cards. This is a HUGE mistake.

Steve