[asterisk-users] How to monitor Asterisk logs ?

[Paul Hales]

Zach Segal wrote:
> Paul Chambers wrote:
>   
>> It's probably total overkill, but nagios is a very sophisticated system 
>> monitoring tool. The learning curve is quite steep, but once there, 
>> it'll be able to monitor just about anything of concern.
>>
>> Paul
>>     
>
> I have to second this while acknowledging the overkill caveat.  We've 
> got a handful of Nagios checks watching our live Asterisk box: check 
> that call reporting is sane and data is being imported regularly to a 
> mysql db, monitor astmanproxy, monitor asterisk process itself, monitor 
> voicemail backup system, monitor the fax printer, etc...  And that's on 
> top of all the checks like disk space, load, and the rest of the run of 
> the mill metrics you tend to monitor on any Linux server.
>
> Most recently when we began to notice problems with our PRI it took all 
> of 5m to whip up a differential log file monitor using one of the 
> vanilla Nagios check scripts that would notify us whenever an alarm or 
> checksum error was detected on the circuit.
>
> The Nagios check scripts themselves are really simple and comprehensize 
> and the architecture is flexible enough to allow you to write custom 
> checks in whatever language you like.  It can be very helpful when 
> you're trying to stay on top of a complex and diverse environment like a 
> PBX.
>
>   

I'm a big fan of Nagios myself, but munin is quite easy to setup and has 
some usable asterisk plugins. (for graphs)

PaulH