[asterisk-users] Ideas for Asterisk load testing, testing trunks etc.

[John Todd]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a task to load test a few VoIP servers, and also test our  
> trunks on regular intervals to see how reliable they are, i.e. how  
> often they go down, if at all.
>
> I did some search and found a lot of VoIP testing tools. I selected  
> some of them and testing them one by one. But so far haven't found  
> any which could do good load testing and test the trunks. So far  
> SIPp is the only one which can do load testing, and I am learning it.
>
> I'll highly appreciate any help from those of you who have good  
> experience in load testing asterisk servers before their deployment  
> in productions.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Zeeshan A Zakaria


Another recent entry into the open-source world is "miTester", which  
is Java-based and runs on Debian and Windows (at the moment.)  I've  
talked with the managers of the project (it's a commercial company)  
and they seem very interested in hearing ideas and experiences with  
the software.  Scriptable support for various tests.  The only  
downside I can see on it at the moment is that it doesn't support RTP  
audio, but apparently they're working on that.

JT

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