[asterisk-users] Proactive problem monitoring on SIP on Asterisk

[Tim Nelson]

----- Original Message ----- 

> Hello,

> 1) I am wondering what is the best practice to monitor if there are
> or were problems with SIP calls on my Asterisk box. E.g. how about a
> software that extracts all calls from the /var/log/asterisk/full (I
> have permanently enabled verbose 10 and sip debug) log and tells me
> on which of them were problems? Checking the logs manually is very
> hard, but as SIP is a standardized protocoll, there should be tools
> doing that for you? As an example, a person calling me recently got
> a 488 Not acceptable error as reply from my Asterisk box. Nothing
> came through to my SIP phone, so I didn't know anything about the
> call or the problems (which were on his phone btw). I would like to
> be informed about such cases, know that there was a call to my
> Asterisk box that made problems.

> 2) How about monitoring speech quality? E.g. sometimes it seems like
> a packet is missing (I then have a short pause during the call), how
> to monitor such things and create statistics out of this data?

> So basically I want to monitor my Asterisk installation proactively
> for reliability/problems and (speech) quality.


Have a look at VQmonitor:

http://www.manageengine.com/products/vqmanager/

It works very well.

--Tim