[VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk

Sat Dec 22 15:20:11 CST 2007

Lee,

I don't have a Linux Desktop on my *boxes but I have seen cups loading 
at start up, might that be the same thing? My APC RS500 came with 
Windows software, my other UPSs are all Belkin and I have never yet 
checked what software comes with them, I'll have to look into this a 
little more closely. At the moment I use my UPSs to iron out the surges 
or carry the loads in the majority of outages which generally are around 
30 seconds or less. I was asleep a few weeks ago when I heard one UPS 
beeping, the Windows PC on the APC UPS had shutdown but two *boxes and a 
second PC as well as my router and network switches were all still alive 
after a 20 minute outage which I thought was pretty good. The house ELCB 
had tripped presumably due to a large surge and I was able to reset it 
as soon as I was aware of it but I don't supposde an outage that long 
did the batteries in my UPSs any good at all.

Brian

Lee Spenadel wrote:
> Brian,
>
> I'm no guru myself, but here's the link to the i386 version of the apcups
> daemon for Linux.  It's an RPM which means you double-click it from the
> Linux desktop and it will automatically install.  I recently installed it
> and it's working fine:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=54413&use_mirror=int
> ernap&filename=apcupsd-3.14.2-1.el4.i386.rpm&68540459
>
> Lee
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
> windmill
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:37 AM
> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk
>
> Lee,
>
> I would love to be able to do that but I don't know enough about Linux. 
> I know that the UPSs can shutdown my Windows PCs because I have seen it 
> in practice although I don't have any UPS comms set up at all at 
> present. On the *boxes all the USB and serial ports are disabled to free 
> up interrupts otherwise the X100P cards might not work.
>
> Brian
>
> Lee Spenadel wrote:
>   
>> Brian,
>>
>> Apparently you have bad PC Karma.  Perhaps your * boxes reside on top of
>>     
> an
>   
>> ancient PBX burial ground...
>>
>> Seriously, why not image your hard drive so that when disaster strikes you
>> can make a copy and slap it back in to a different machine.  Also, I would
>> install the apcupsd on your Linux/ *box?  This way when the reserve power
>>     
> of
>   
>> the UPS dips below a certain level it will send a shutdown command to the
>> PC.  You won't have to run around shutting down the machines manually and
>> they will be shutdown  gracefully.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
>> windmill
>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:51 PM
>> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
>> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk
>>
>> I'm still not sure why but I have lost four *boxes in the last year for 
>> one reason or another. Something has become corrupted on the hard drives 
>> and I'm fairly certain that the almost daily power outages a few months 
>> ago had a great deal to do with it, that was before I had UPSs, they 
>> will only carry the load for 15 or 20 minutes but it's enough for most 
>> outages. Having said that there was a power fault yesterday which took 
>> out my village and about 20 others around Lincoln yesterday at 0813 and 
>> it took Central Electricity Networks 20 minutes to restore the supply by 
>> which time I had manually switched off all my telephone and computer 
>> equipment. I'll be shopping for more UPS kit in the January sales and 
>> another PC or two if I can't get my old *boxes running again, I think 
>> one has developed a motherboard fault which prevents it from reading the 
>> hard drive.
>>
>> Nothing seems to go smoothly these days, I have been trying to get ahead 
>> and delve deeper into Asterisk and Linux but things keep getting in the 
>> way, so much so that I tend to describe myself as 'on permanent interrupt'
>>     
> !
>   
>> Brian
>>
>> Lee Spenadel wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I can tell you that I have had no major problems rebuilding my * PBX on
>>> Centos 4.5 and Asterisk 1.4.13.  It's been rock solid, though the Shared
>>> Line Appearance is feature still eludes me :(
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
>>> windmill
>>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:26 AM
>>> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
>>> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk
>>>
>>> Ah yes FWD can be quite unreliable going down for hours at the weekend. 
>>> For backup I have the FWD communicator on my desktop but generally both 
>>> IAX and SIP are out together.
>>>
>>> I use Zoiper but also have Xlite and Express Talk with all three running 
>>> from a single desktop.  I prefer real phones but  multiple softphones on 
>>> a desktop are very handy for testing a dialplan from a single point. I 
>>> guess I'll be doing some of that over the next few days now that I've 
>>> had to rush my experimental *pbx6 into service and then I'll be looking 
>>> to rebuild/update my failed *pbx2 possibly giving Fedora 8 a try as I 
>>> got it on the front of a magazine last week.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>> Lee Spenadel wrote:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> I was having trouble with FWD running under iax - I don't think they
>>>>         
> were
>   
>>>> supporting it well at the time, so I went the sip route.  I also use the
>>>> X-lite soft phone which seems to work well too.
>>>>
>>>> Lee
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
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