[Aaug] In the dark

[Anthony Cosgrove]

I think a pretty good way is to put a qualify=yes in your trunk and then 
create a cron job to look for the string UNREACHABLE when doing a iax2 show 
registry. Something similar like that is done to watch PRI status.

I can't remember what the link is but do a google search on asterisk PRI 
monitoring

Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cfowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: "Jeff Roberts" <Jeff.Roberts at adamsbrothers.com>
Cc: "ATLANTA * USERS GROUP" <aaug at atlaug.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:22 PM
Subject: RE: [Aaug] In the dark


> Maybe my problem is that I'm not doing a registration?
>
> Here is what is in my iax.conf file for voipjet
>
> [voipjet]
> disallow=all
> allow=ulaw
> type=peer
> host= test.voipjet.com
> username= 15135
> secret= XXXXXXXXXXXXX
> auth=md5
> context=default
>
> I also can not ping 'test.voipjet.com'.  That might be an indicator as
> well.  Ping is not a good tests since many firewalls block ICMP packets.
>
> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 13:13 -0500, Jeff Roberts wrote:
>> There are a hundred ways to skin this cat.  As far as I know asterisk
>> wont do this itself but since it runs on linux you've got a million
>> tools to use to make your own system.  You could set up something to
>> monitor the asterisk log files and watch for a lost registration or
>> whatever and take action if it sees the right string in the log file.
>> You could also set a cron job up to place a test call every so often and
>> take action if the call failed.  That is just scratching the surface I'm
>> sure.
>>
>> Jeff Roberts
>> Adams Companies
>> Director of Information Systems
>> Direct: 205-397-9280
>> Fax: 205-397-9282
>> Cell: 205-566-1778
>> jeff.roberts at adamsbrothers.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: aaug-bounces at atlaug.com [mailto:aaug-bounces at atlaug.com] On Behalf
>> Of cfowler
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:02 AM
>> To: aaug at atlaug.com
>> Subject: [Aaug] In the dark
>>
>> My biggest problem with my PBX is that I'm in the dark when it comes to
>> access.
>>
>> For example.  This morning I added an ATA to the system.  I then tried
>> to dial my extension and wait for it to go to cell-phone.  Well I got
>> MOH then my voicemail in *.  No attempt to go to cell.  Looking at
>> syslog I see "Auto-congesting call due to slow response".  In this case
>> I've lost my trunk to the outside world.  I did not know this.
>>
>> To lose the trunk is like someone digging up a T1 line outside the
>> office.  Now if UDP is connectionless this means I will only know of
>> trunk failure when I try to make a call.  Maybe I can get * to monitor
>> my trunk and create an alarm when it fails?  Maybe it can just monitor
>> the trunk.  I can create my on alarm.
>>
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