Network Monitoring Systems
Now I have a (possibly) crazy requiremement. I have several IP PBXs which I'd like to monitor, not for uptime, not for anything else, but functionality. You guys know what a PBx is for right? I am looking for a system that can do this, and I am not looking for a FREE one. I will pay for it. The system should be able to call certain numbers and be intelligent enough to detect and distinguish between a busy line and NO answer. If a line is not busy and not answered in 2 rings, I need a notification sent by SMS to 1 or more people. Anyone?? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
Now I have a (possibly) crazy requiremement.
I have several IP PBXs which I'd like to monitor, not for uptime, not for anything else, but functionality. You guys know what a PBx is for right?
I am looking for a system that can do this, and I am not looking for a FREE one. I will pay for it.
The system should be able to call certain numbers and be intelligent enough to detect and distinguish between a busy line and NO answer.
If a line is not busy and not answered in 2 rings, I need a notification sent by SMS to 1 or more people.
Nagios has extensive plugins for PBX equipment including Asterisk based ones.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 17:41, rsohan@gmail.com <rsohan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
Now I have a (possibly) crazy requiremement.
I have several IP PBXs which I'd like to monitor, not for uptime, not for anything else, but functionality. You guys know what a PBx is for right?
:-)
I am looking for a system that can do this, and I am not looking for a FREE one. I will pay for it.
The system should be able to call certain numbers and be intelligent enough to detect and distinguish between a busy line and NO answer.
If a line is not busy and not answered in 2 rings, I need a notification sent by SMS to 1 or more people.
Nagios has extensive plugins for PBX equipment including Asterisk based ones.
@Roshan, This is not the sort of answer I expected. I want someone to say "I have the system. It costs N amount". -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
It is said that coders love challenges, so if you are brave enough, why not throw down the challenge, *if any coder can develop this software for me, I will pay $X, plus a crate of picana *:-) Who knows, the end result might be interesting. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 17:41, rsohan@gmail.com <rsohan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
Now I have a (possibly) crazy requiremement.
I have several IP PBXs which I'd like to monitor, not for uptime, not for anything else, but functionality. You guys know what a PBx is for right?
:-)
I am looking for a system that can do this, and I am not looking for a FREE one. I will pay for it.
The system should be able to call certain numbers and be intelligent enough to detect and distinguish between a busy line and NO answer.
If a line is not busy and not answered in 2 rings, I need a notification sent by SMS to 1 or more people.
Nagios has extensive plugins for PBX equipment including Asterisk based ones.
@Roshan,
This is not the sort of answer I expected.
I want someone to say "I have the system. It costs N amount".
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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I am not throwing a challenge, Peter. I have said I have the money to pay for the system. That is not a challenge. It's an incentive, but I am not willing to be a guinea pig when I am paying:-) On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 19:18, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
It is said that coders love challenges, so if you are brave enough, why not throw down the challenge, *if any coder can develop this software for me, I will pay $X, plus a crate of picana *:-) Who knows, the end result might be interesting.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 17:41, rsohan@gmail.com <rsohan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com
wrote:
Now I have a (possibly) crazy requiremement.
I have several IP PBXs which I'd like to monitor, not for uptime, not for anything else, but functionality. You guys know what a PBx is for right?
:-)
I am looking for a system that can do this, and I am not looking for a FREE one. I will pay for it.
The system should be able to call certain numbers and be intelligent enough to detect and distinguish between a busy line and NO answer.
If a line is not busy and not answered in 2 rings, I need a notification sent by SMS to 1 or more people.
Nagios has extensive plugins for PBX equipment including Asterisk based ones.
@Roshan,
This is not the sort of answer I expected.
I want someone to say "I have the system. It costs N amount".
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
Make it two guys, I need something similar as well. -----Original Message----- From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Sender: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:21:38 To: Skunkworks Mailing List<skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Reply-To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Network Monitoring Systems _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
I remember when we were young we used to do line tests for dial ups, then we did automate this at some point but all we did was to listen for a tone and if there was none, we market the line as dead. If you can build on this, I can give you some leads, otherwise I absolutely have no time to do it :-) ./Ok3ch Sent from my iPad On Jan 17, 2012, at 19:53, "Stan Ngure" <stanngure@gmail.com> wrote:
Make it two guys, I need something similar as well.
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@ ./Ok3ch, what technologies did you use for these line tests? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
I remember when we were young we used to do line tests for dial ups, then we did automate this at some point but all we did was to listen for a tone and if there was none, we market the line as dead. If you can build on this, I can give you some leads, otherwise I absolutely have no time to do it :-)
./Ok3ch
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 17, 2012, at 19:53, "Stan Ngure" <stanngure@gmail.com> wrote:
Make it two guys, I need something similar as well.
-----Original Message----- From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Sender: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:21:38 To: Skunkworks Mailing List<skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Reply-To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Network Monitoring Systems
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-- Regards, Peter Karunyu -------------------
Hi @Peter, if you are interested in the doing it, please go for it. I can add to what @Okech has written. HTHs. :-) In the old days, we used to use terminal programs to talk to modems etc. You can use AT commands to do such and come up with line conditions results. In the case of IP PBX, I think you'll have to write a sip client that can query the log files on the PBxes. If the PBxes don't give access to the log files due to administrative issues, then you can still create the Sip client and do sampling on one of the encoders eg. G711 say on busy tone or no response. The Sip client will also make it easy to integrate the SMS portion as alerts, though I'd recommend using adding SMTP to send out an email as getting the SMS to work could be tricky unless the use of an external gateway is possible. The Sip Client will register on the IP PBX as an extension and perform the tests as required to. @Wash has requested for an excellent tool, wish we had the capacity to produce and market it outside KE. How many IP PBxes exist today? Literally thousands. Some thots. Cheers. :-) On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
@ ./Ok3ch, what technologies did you use for these line tests?
Used Python scripts to talk to NAS'es which had the realm of all dial-up numbers. Am trying to get my archives for the actual scripts since I now cant even write a 'Hello World' ./Ok3ch On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:02 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi @Peter, if you are interested in the doing it, please go for it. I can add to what @Okech has written. HTHs. :-)
In the old days, we used to use terminal programs to talk to modems etc. You can use AT commands to do such and come up with line conditions results. In the case of IP PBX, I think you'll have to write a sip client that can query the log files on the PBxes. If the PBxes don't give access to the log files due to administrative issues, then you can still create the Sip client and do sampling on one of the encoders eg. G711 say on busy tone or no response. The Sip client will also make it easy to integrate the SMS portion as alerts, though I'd recommend using adding SMTP to send out an email as getting the SMS to work could be tricky unless the use of an external gateway is possible.
The Sip Client will register on the IP PBX as an extension and perform the tests as required to.
@Wash has requested for an excellent tool, wish we had the capacity to produce and market it outside KE. How many IP PBxes exist today? Literally thousands.
Some thots.
Cheers. :-)
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
@ ./Ok3ch, what technologies did you use for these line tests?
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Hehe.....when we were young! Sent from my iPad On 17 Jan 2012, at 23:47, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
I remember when we were young we used to do line tests for dial ups, then we did automate this at some point but all we did was to listen for a tone and if there was none, we market the line as dead. If you can build on this, I can give you some leads, otherwise I absolutely have no time to do it :-)
./Ok3ch
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 17, 2012, at 19:53, "Stan Ngure" <stanngure@gmail.com> wrote:
Make it two guys, I need something similar as well.
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Now I have a (possibly) crazy requiremement.
I have several IP PBXs which I'd like to monitor, not for uptime, not for anything else, but functionality. You guys know what a PBx is for right?
I am looking for a system that can do this, and I am not looking for a FREE one. I will pay for it.
The system should be able to call certain numbers and be intelligent enough to detect and distinguish between a busy line and NO answer.
If a line is not busy and not answered in 2 rings, I need a notification sent by SMS to 1 or more people.
Anyone??
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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Stan Ngure