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System Status (the rebranded dashboard module — formerly "System Dashboard") is the at-a-glance health page: registration counts, active calls, system load, disk usage, software versions, recent errors. First place to look when "something feels slow" or "calls are failing."

Steps

  1. Go to Reports → System Status.
  2. The page renders panels:
    • System Statistics — CPU, memory, swap, disk usage, load average.
    • Network — uptime, IP addresses, network interface stats.
    • Asterisk Statistics — active calls, active channels, call volume in last hour.
    • Registrations — extensions registered / total. Click in to see which are offline.
    • Trunks — registered / total (for register-mode trunks). Down trunks flagged.
    • System Notices — Sangoma announcements, module update notices, license warnings.
    • License Information — commercial module license status.
    • Recent Errors / Logs — tail of recent log entries from various modules.

What to Check When Things Break

  • Calls failing inbound: scroll to Trunks — is the trunk registered/online?
  • Specific extension can't make calls: check Registrations — is it registered?
  • System slow: System Statistics — CPU, load, disk full?
  • Module misbehaving: System Notices for license/update warnings; Recent Errors for stack traces.
  • Calls dropping at random: look for Network issues (interface flapping, packet loss).

Useful Companion Commands

# What's happening right now:
asterisk -rx "core show channels"
asterisk -rx "pjsip show endpoints" | grep -c "Available"
asterisk -rx "pjsip show registrations"

# Disk and load:
df -h
top
free -m

# Last 50 lines of full Asterisk log:
tail -50 /var/log/asterisk/full

Common Issues

  • Dashboard shows red registrations but trunk works. Some IP-auth trunks don't register — they show as down on the dashboard but still pass calls. Check trunk's registration mode.
  • CPU/load high but no calls. Background process: log rotation, backup, fail2ban scan. Check top for the actual process.
  • Disk full warning. Voicemail, recordings, logs grow. Common offenders:
    • /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/ — old VMs (set Delete Voicemail = Yes if VM-to-email is on).
    • /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/ — call recordings.
    • /var/log/asterisk/ — full logs (logrotate should handle, but verify).
  • System Notices nag persists after acknowledging. Cache; click Reload or clear browser cache.