[asterisk-users] AMI disconnects

[Paul Belanger]

On 12-05-03 03:47 PM, Paul Belanger wrote:
> On 12-05-03 01:45 PM, Mike Diehl wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I've got a perl script that connects to Asterisk's management
>> interface using Asterisk::AMI. So far, its proven to be very useful.
>>
>> I'm hoping to use this to detect and respond to asterisk restarts and
>> sip reloads.
>>
>> However, my script gets disconnected quite frequently, causing false
>> alarms in my monitoring.
>>
>> Here's what the code looks like:
>>
>> =========================================================
>> while ($more) {
>> $change = 0;
>>
>> while (!$ami->connected(5)) {
>> Event::Shutdown(Event=>"Shutdown");
>> send_to_subscribers( {"Event" => "Shutdown", "customer_id" => 0},
>> "Connection to Asterisk lost on $server");
>>
>> $change++;
>> sleep(1);
>>
>> ami_connect();
>>
>> next;
>> }
>>
>> $watchdog = 10;
>> while ($ami->get_event(1)&& $watchdog--) {
>> if ($watchdog< 2) { print "Watchdog timer too short.\n"; }
>> $change++;
>> }
>>
>> Do other stuff from here.
>>
>> if ($change == 0) {
>> sleep(2);
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> exit 1;
>> =========================================================
>>
>> When this scrip disconnects, the asterisk console simply says that the
>> manager logged off from 127.0.0.1 and got logged back on. No reall
>> error indication given.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to make this script keep it's connection?
>>
> This belongs on the asterisk-users list. However, something like StarPY
> (Python) has this functionality by using the Twisted. It simply monitors
> events on the AMI, and if the connect break, can be setup to re-connect.
>
Heh, apparently this is the asterisk-user list. Sorry, dealing with a 
new mail client and misread my folder labels.

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