[asterisk-users] Monitoring Asterisk uptime

[Matt Riddell]

On 7/08/09 2:28 AM, Myles Wakeham wrote:
> 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.

We actually get customers to register to us, and then run a cronjob that 
checks their registrations are online.  If not (they are connected to 5 
of our servers) we use clickatel to send SMS messages to our cellphones.

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Cheers,

Matt Riddell
Director
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