> My office has been running Asterisk 1.0.8 and a TDM04B for a few months > now without too much trouble. After a while we discovered that after a > certain period (about a month), asterisk stopped acknowledging inbound > calls. Since I was out of the office the first time it happened, > another admin rebooted the whole box which solved the problem. The > second time it happened I discovered that just restarting gracefully > solved the problem, so I put that into my cron and forgot about it. (I > know, it's not "right", but debugging something that happens > unpredictably once a month could go on for way too long to be acceptable..) > > Now, less than a week since I did that, asterisk stopped ringing our > extensions on inbound calls again. "sip show peers" showed that > asterisk knew about all of the extensions. I forgot to check "zap show > channels" when * was ignoring inbound calls, is it possible that * > thinks all the lines are still off hook? Is there anything else I > should do to figure out what's causing trouble? Unfortunately it's > usually something of a panic situation, so I'm not allowed the chance to > troubleshoot as thoroughly as I'd like. > > Speaking of, I've fiddled and tweaked left and right to get hangup > detection working better to no real avail. Asterisk eventually decides > the far side hung up about 10 seconds after the fact. Am I > understanding right that call progress is still something of a black art > for analog FXO devices? Not getting 10 second dead air voicemails when > people hang up would be sweet. :) > > I couldn't find a changelog for 1.0.9 to see if it's worth the > off-hours maintenance window, and we're too dependant on the phones to > try 1.2. Should I try the next step up in the probably unnecessary > preventative maintenance and unload/reload the wctdm module during the > asterisk restart? Is there any way to have asterisk notify that it's > running low on/out of resources? We don't typically ever tie up all of > our zap channels except for really particularly exciting days, so if > they are all in use it would be cause for concern..
Check the revision of the TDM card. If rev E/F, call digium support to get it replaced. Known problem with early versions of the card. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users