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

[Tim Nelson]

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> ----- 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.
> 

...it worked well when you could buy it. Apparently it is EOL now [1]. Sorry for the noise. These aren't the droids you're looking for.

--Tim

[1] http://www.manageengine.com/products/vqmanager/eol.html