[asterisk-users] Logging SIP connection status for review

[Steve Edwards]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Carlos Alvarez wrote:

> Is anyone using something to log SIP results (connected/not, latency) 
> that they really like?  We do some logging using simple scripts writing 
> the results of sip show peers to a text file if customers report issues, 
> but it would be nice to have a tool that logs all the time and lets us 
> do some better reporting.  For example, graphs of latency in a time 
> range, or a list of unreachable phones within a range, etc.

dumpcap can capture all of the SIP (and RTP) packets into a series of 
files without a huge performance hit.

A cron job can pbzip2 the files and delete if over x days old.

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Thanks in advance,
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