RECOMMENDATIONS Monitor and auto restart Asterisk?

[isaacl]

Any way to have something monitor and auto restart asterisk, in case it stops?
I've seen it stop a few times, and if there is something that can monitor the service and automatically restart it if it goes down, that would be awesome...
Thanks!

 

[krzykat]

I think I'd be putting more of my efforts into finding out why your asterisk stops. That should never happen.

 

[bucasia]

I agree, find out why it's crashing would be best.

You should be able to use monit to autorestart while you're doing that -

https://mmonit.com/monit/
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/asterisk/using-monit-tool-to-monitor-asterisk.asp

 

[isaacl]

I have a server set up that plays music for people who call in, but I've seen it crash or otherwise stop working a few times.
Going to work on figuring out the cause, but for now, it's easiest to just have it restart in case something takes it down.
Going to try monit, thanks @bucasia!

 

[isaacl]

Looks like it went down again, but no clue why...
Might be something with the musiconhold setup, but going to try the monit thing for now...

 

[isaacl]

Using this code for monit, based on some code I found online with some changes:

# Asterisk Monitoring rule
set daemon 30 # Check every 30s
set logfile /var/log/monit.log
set alert [email protected] but not on { pid, ppid }
check process asterisk with pidfile /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid
group asterisk
start program = "/usr/local/sbin/amportal restart"
stop program = "/usr/local/sbin/amportal kill"
# Check uptime via Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) port 5038
if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 5038 then restart

I took out the line which has it timeout, and changed the commands to use amportal instead of asterisk.

Anyone have any other input/recommendations?

I saw that @wardmundy was planning on putting together a monit script a while back - did that ever happen?

Thanks a lot!

 

[grillovillegas]

Using this code for monit, based on some code I found online with some changes:

# Asterisk Monitoring rule
set daemon 30 # Check every 30s
set logfile /var/log/monit.log
set alert [email protected] but not on { pid, ppid }
check process asterisk with pidfile /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid
group asterisk
start program = "/usr/local/sbin/amportal restart"
stop program = "/usr/local/sbin/amportal kill"
# Check uptime via Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) port 5038
if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 5038 then restart

I took out the line which has it timeout, and changed the commands to use amportal instead of asterisk.

Anyone have any other input/recommendations?

I saw that @wardmundy was planning on putting together a monit script a while back - did that ever happen?

Thanks a lot!

Hi how do you implement this on a PIAF system ?