We have recently used Digium gateway as alternative to other existing PRI interfaces and it’s been working like a charm. However, we had a client who needed to monitor the PRI connections and send an email alert whenever the PRI go down. Back then we had no issue with PRI PCI cards as we had access to DAHDI and could simply write a daemon to monitor “pri show spans”. With this gateway however, we cannot do it as simple as that as we have no access to the PRI and there is no SNMP tool whatsoever. The way I could think of was to push the syslog to Asterisk server and parse the syslog looking for anything suspicious. Now here is how I worked that out:

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