asterisk users - Jan 2005 - Asterisk monitoring with Nagios and IAX

Hi *,

Does anyone have a lead on a Nagios plugin that speaks IAX or a small 
app to do so? I'm trying to set up remote monitoring for my Asterisk 
server and only IAX2 traffic is allowed through the firewall. Simply 
using check_udp to port 4569 yields no usable answer and Asterisk 
complains about receiving a midget packet or something like that :)

jens

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Vagelpohl [mailto:jens@dataflake.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 8:07 AM
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk monitoring with Nagios and IAX
> 
> 
> Hi *,
> 
> Does anyone have a lead on a Nagios plugin that speaks IAX or a small 
> app to do so? I'm trying to set up remote monitoring for my Asterisk 
> server and only IAX2 traffic is allowed through the firewall. Simply 
> using check_udp to port 4569 yields no usable answer and Asterisk 
> complains about receiving a midget packet or something like that :)
> 
> jens
> 
I am also very interested in this functionality.  At one point there was

an application available called iaxping with would send a set of well 
formed iax packets and wait for the response.  Unfortunately that 
application was written in visual basic, and no source code was 
distributed.  A skilled coder could probably use some of the required 
functions from iaxclient or libiax2 and create a similar function in C.


I think this could be a very important feature for failover, and would 
love to see a function created to do this.

Please let us know what you find or end up doing.

Robert Jackson

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:07:08 +0100, Jens Vagelpohl <jens@dataflake.org>
wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> Does anyone have a lead on a Nagios plugin that speaks IAX or a small
> app to do so? I'm trying to set up remote monitoring for my Asterisk
> server and only IAX2 traffic is allowed through the firewall. 
I don't believe it has been done yet. There is a small Nagios plugin
out there but it doesn't do much. We have a very large Nagios
installation and I have been struggling to find time to write some
Asterisk plugins. I would be interested in helping out (though my IAX
knowledge is limited). Also, RoyK on IRC is very involved in the
Nagios and Asterisk communities. I'm sure he could be a resource.

-Chuji

> Does anyone have a lead on a Nagios plugin that speaks IAX or a small 
> app to do so? I'm trying to set up remote monitoring for my Asterisk 
> server and only IAX2 traffic is allowed through the firewall. Simply 
> using check_udp to port 4569 yields no usable answer and Asterisk 
> complains about receiving a midget packet or something like that :)
I wrote a nagios plugin that probes asterisk with the manager interface.
Shouldn't be too hard to check by IAX2 or SIP neither, given libraries 
to do so

roy

Hi,


What do you want to check exacly?
that * is still alive? you want to know the number of concurrent call?

Florian




Hi *,

Does anyone have a lead on a Nagios plugin that speaks IAX or a small 
app to do so? I'm trying to set up remote monitoring for my Asterisk 
server and only IAX2 traffic is allowed through the firewall. Simply 
using check_udp to port 4569 yields no usable answer and Asterisk 
complains about receiving a midget packet or something like that  :) 

jens