[Serusers] monitoring SER

[Nils Ohlmeier]

Hi,

IMHO sending OPTIONS request is the best way to test if a server is still 
responding to requests. Server are not required to answer such requests, but 
as it described in the RFC, i would say it is at least recommended. 0.8.12 
contains a module which can answer this requests, and sipsak can send such 
requests.

If you want to test the user location and authentication too, sipsak can do 
this as well. sipsak supports digest authentication and in the usrloc mode it 
registers itself and sends either a test MESSAGE or an INVITE to the account 
registered just before.
I guess it should be easy to integrate an external executable like sipsak into 
a Nagios plugin. But you are free to write plain SIP into a Nagios module ;)

If you want to test NAT traversal too, that is currently not posibble with 
sipsak because it is not symmetric yet.

If you have any further questions or really need symmetric support in sipsak 
quickly feel free to ask me directly.

Greets
  Nils

On Thursday 27 November 2003 16:13, Alexander Mayrhofer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about how to monitor a running SER installation end-to-end
> (which may include an authentication source, a NAT traversal box etc.)
>
> My preferred solution would be to use Nagios (http://www.nagios.com),
> and let a Nagios plugin do e.g. a REGISTER/(de)REGISTER every few
> minutes.
>
> Has anybody made any efforts to write a SIP plugin for Nagios? Any other
> solutions you are using to monitor SER?
>
> thanks & cheers
>
> axelm
>
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