[asterisk-users] Monitoring Asterisk uptime

[Myles Wakeham]

We have added Asterisk to a line of 'mission critical' servers at our 
business, and being in the web application development business one of 
the core things we do is to monitor web server availability.

I'd like to add Asterisk to the servers that our monitoring systems are 
handling, and also that our SIP trunk provider has our Asterisk system 
correctly registered at all times.

What are the 'best practice' tricks used for monitoring an Asterisk 
phone system for uptime and SIP registration from an external monitoring 
server?  I can certainly ping the box, but I really need more than this. 
  I need to know if the Asterisk service is running, and also that there 
hasn't been any issues with SIP registration to our external trunks.

If anyone could share how they are doing this sort of thing, it would be 
greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Myles
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Myles Wakeham
Director of Engineering
Tech Solutions USA, Inc.
Scottsdale, Arizona  USA
http://www.techsolusa.com
Phone +1-480-451-7440