[asterisk-users] Asterisk Monitoring

[Dan Journo]

Hello,



I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way to automatically monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly available and processing calls.



Many thanks

Dan



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[Alex Balashov]

Post by Dan Journo
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way to
automatically monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly
available and processing calls.

Depends on which signaling technology is in use.

I'll assume SIP here.

Checking whether it's processing calls (especially in some sort of
subjective way) can be a bit hard. But checking if the SIP interface
on it is responsive is quite easy; just install a tool called SIP
Swiss Army Knife ('sipsak'):

sipsak -T -s sip:***@ip.of.your.asterisk.box

***@octavia:~$ sipsak -T -s sip:***@10.250.10.1
warning: IP extract from warning activated to be more informational
0: ?? (70.357 ms) SIP/2.0 404 Not Found
without Contact header

Conversely, if it were down:

***@octavia:~$ sipsak -T -s sip:***@10.250.10.6
warning: IP extract from warning activated to be more informational
send failure: Connection refused

Or it would just time out.

This command returns a value which can be captured by a shell script,
and so it is possible to build it into something like a Nagios plugin,
for example.

[Jarrod Lash]

We use Nagios. It is by far the most popular system for making sure process
are running and whatnot..

www.nagios.org
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Post by Dan Journo
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way to automatically
monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly available and processing
calls.
Many thanks
Dan
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[Jai Rangi]

Nagios has a plugin "check_sip" that can be used for this.


-Jai

Post by Dan Journo
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way to automatically
monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly available and processing
calls.
Many thanks
Dan
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[John A. Sullivan III]

Post by Dan Journo
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way to
automatically monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly
available and processing calls.

<snip>
It depends on how deep and far you want to go. As already mentioned,
Nagios will do a nice job of letting you know SIP is responding and is
an all around excellent product.

Despite our familiarity with Nagios, we've been taking the plunge into
OpenNMS. It is much, much, much more difficult to set up for Asterisk
monitoring and is an enormous product. On the other hand, it gives you
access into the entire Asterisk SNMP MIB, does an outstanding job of
collecting and presenting statistics for all channels (not just SIP -
Nagios could theoretically expose the entire MIB but I don't know that
anyone has written such a plugin and doing it via the SNMP plugin alone
would be difficult at best). We were very keen to track much more data
than Nagios gave us in order to tweak, troubleshoot, and diagnose our
services. Hence the investment in learning OpenNMS. Once you get past
the huge learning curve of OpenNMS, it is a remarkably powerful product.

There was a flurry of queries regarding the specifics of setting up
Asterisk monitoring on the OpenNMS mailing list just a couple of days
ago and another string on monitoring SIP a couple of weeks ago. Hope
this helps - John

[John A. Sullivan III]

Post by Dan Journo
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way to
automatically monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly
available and processing calls.

<snip>
It depends on how deep and far you want to go. As already mentioned,
Nagios will do a nice job of letting you know SIP is responding and is
an all around excellent product.

Despite our familiarity with Nagios, we've been taking the plunge into
OpenNMS. It is much, much, much more difficult to set up for Asterisk
monitoring and is an enormous product. On the other hand, it gives you
access into the entire Asterisk SNMP MIB, does an outstanding job of
collecting and presenting statistics for all channels (not just SIP -
Nagios could theoretically expose the entire MIB but I don't know that
anyone has written such a plugin and doing it via the SNMP plugin alone
would be difficult at best). We were very keen to track much more data
than Nagios gave us in order to tweak, troubleshoot, and diagnose our
services. Hence the investment in learning OpenNMS. Once you get past
the huge learning curve of OpenNMS, it is a remarkably powerful product.

There was a flurry of queries regarding the specifics of setting up
Asterisk monitoring on the OpenNMS mailing list just a couple of days
ago and another string on monitoring SIP a couple of weeks ago. Hope
this helps - John

[Steve Totaro]

Post by Dan Journo
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way to automatically
monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly available and processing
calls.
Many thanks
Dan

I just telnet from a "monitor box" to the AMI and issue a number of show
commands to gather info such as how many sip, iax2, zap, etc, calls and use
RRD for history and graphs.

Argus is pretty good too.

Thanks,
Steve T

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Jai Rangi wrote:

Nagios has a plugin "check_sip" that can be used for this.


-Jai



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Hello,

 

I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way
to automatically monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly available
and processing calls.

 

Many thanks

Dan

 













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[Lee Archer]

Zenoss has something that hits the manager port. I run Asterisk 1.4 boxes and are using SNMP to monitor. Asterisk 1.6 has a couple of extra SNMP OID’s that show the number of calls processed. It’s a shame 1.4 doesn’t have this OID as it could be really useful.



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Jai Rangi wrote:

Nagios has a plugin "check_sip" that can be used for this.


-Jai




On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Dan Journo <***@keshercommunications.com> wrote:

Hello,



I was wondering if anyone has any insights on the best way to automatically monitor an asterisk box to check it is constantly available and processing calls.



Many thanks

Dan



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