From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Claude Hayn Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:42 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder (Claude Hayn
Thank you all for your replies. I am just starting to use message boards and really appreciate the fact that people jump in an effort to help. As I'm learning, I'm hopeful to be able to help other folks down the road. Judging by the responses I should have provided more details, including the fact that I'm a novice. This implementation is quite old (and they will not spring for anything new). The UPS is not capable of writing to anything so that would not help. The office manager freaks out each time and starts randomly rebooting devices in no particular order including the UPS, PBX, Asterisk Gateway, firewall and router. I suspect the overall issue is related to the reboot timing difference between the PBX and asterisk box. Kevin, thank you for your reply. I'm not sure where to look, but would like to address the cause. Would you have any specific ideas as to what to look at/for? Someone mentioned that the Asterisk Gateway might need to be the clock. Does this make sense? Could this be considered a cause? Robert, thank you for your answer. Given my limited ability to discern issues/causes this is along the lines of what I had in mind. I was thinking that something that would reboot the Asterisk Gateway approximately 5 min. after power returned, giving the old/tired PBX time to fully reboot would solve the issue. I was further trying to understand how to keep this from perpetually rebooting the asterisk Gateway every 5 min. and how to have it happen automatically just once after a power outage. My understanding is that your concept would work once if the flag was thrown. I'm not sure how to address the fact that I would not know the power outage occurred so that reboot would be automatic the second time. Again, thank you all for responding, Claude My wild guess is that the "old/tired PBX" is actually looking at the T1 before the Asterisk system is ready. If you can sneak in in the wee hours to simulate a power failure and bring one up at a time, you may be able to determine a power-up sequence that will work. Then you may be able to find a cost-justified solution that would delay power to one of the devices after a power failure. --Don Don Kelly PCF Corp People Come First 651 842-1000 651 842-1001 fax
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