asterisk users - Mar 2009 - Ideas for Asterisk load testing, testing trunks etc.

Hi,

I have a task to load test a few VoIP servers, and also test our trunks on
regular intervals to see how reliable they are, i.e. how often they go down,
if at all.

I did some search and found a lot of VoIP testing tools. I selected some of
them and testing them one by one. But so far haven't found any which could
do good load testing and test the trunks. So far SIPp is the only one which
can do load testing, and I am learning it.

I'll highly appreciate any help from those of you who have good experience
in load testing asterisk servers before their deployment in productions.

Regards,

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Zeeshan A Zakaria
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On Mar 30, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a task to load test a few VoIP servers, and also test our  
> trunks on regular intervals to see how reliable they are, i.e. how  
> often they go down, if at all.
>
> I did some search and found a lot of VoIP testing tools. I selected  
> some of them and testing them one by one. But so far haven't found  
> any which could do good load testing and test the trunks. So far  
> SIPp is the only one which can do load testing, and I am learning it.
>
> I'll highly appreciate any help from those of you who have good  
> experience in load testing asterisk servers before their deployment  
> in productions.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Zeeshan A Zakaria

Another recent entry into the open-source world is "miTester", which  
is Java-based and runs on Debian and Windows (at the moment.)  I've  
talked with the managers of the project (it's a commercial company)  
and they seem very interested in hearing ideas and experiences with  
the software.  Scriptable support for various tests.  The only  
downside I can see on it at the moment is that it doesn't support RTP  
audio, but apparently they're working on that.

JT

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:18:09PM -0400, Zeeshan Zakaria
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a task to load test a few VoIP servers, and also test our trunks on
> regular intervals to see how reliable they are, i.e. how often they go
down,
> if at all.
> 
> I did some search and found a lot of VoIP testing tools. I selected some of
> them and testing them one by one. But so far haven't found any which
could
> do good load testing and test the trunks. So far SIPp is the only one which
> can do load testing, and I am learning it.
Asterisk (or anything similar) can be easily used to generate a test
load on a trunk. It's fully programmable, you know.

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