Salt Beacon monitor windows processes - salt-stack

I'm trying to use beacons for monitoring of windows processes and to fire event to salt-master event bus and catch it with wait for evert via salt runner which works.
Config as follow:
beacon.conf
beacons:
ps:
- processes:
TiWorker.exe: stopped
LogonUI.exe: running
- interval: 60
wait-for-event
wait_for_TiWorker:
salt.wait_for_event:
- name: salt/beacon/*/ps/
- id_list:
- LKA5
- timeout: 600
However, I have two problems:
I would like to monitor the state of two processes simultaneously and to fire event only if the two conditions are meet
How to add a custom tag to the event?

I someone even looking for a solution:
I have created custom beacons for each of the processes with custom tag :)

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Asterisk AMI events sometimes missing

I have a Python service which connects to Asterisk via AMI and listens for events to detect when a call has begun.
This seems to work on most of the Asterisk servers I connect to. However, on a few of our servers we just don't see any of the AMI events (e.g. Newstate) when the call happens, though we do later see the Cdr event once the call has completed.
I've confirmed that this isn't specific to the library we're using to connect to AMI (py-Asterisk), because I see exactly the same thing when I connect manually, e.g.
$ openssl s_client -connect my-asterisk-server:5039
...
Asterisk Call Manager/2.10.3
Action: Login
Username: manager
Secret: ThisIsWhereITypedTheActualPassword
Response: Success
Message: Authentication accepted
Event: FullyBooted
Privilege: system,all
Status: Fully Booted
Action: Events
EventMask: on
Response: Success
Events: on
In the above block, I manually connected to AMI, logged in as the same administrator my Python code is using, and ensured that all events are turned on (though my asterisk config should already be displaying all events I care about by default).
After this point what I see on some of my Asterisk servers is a series of expected events like Newstate, followed by an eventual Cdr event. On other servers, I see only the Cdr event, with nothing proceeding it. This is completely consistened within each server, meaning a server either always sends all of the expected events or it never does.
I've checked the versions of asterisk, the manager.conf config file, the extensions.conf dialplan, the asterisk console in verbose mode (i.e. connecting via asterisk -vvvr to the running process), and just generally comparing my config files to my actually-working Asterisk servers.
I'm stumped as to what could be causing this, or even what to try next. If it matters, here's what my manager.conf looks like:
[general]
tlsenable=yes
tlsbindaddr=10.0.0.123:5039
tlscertfile=/etc/pki/asterisk/ami.crt
tlsprivatekey=/etc/pki/asterisk/ami.key
[admin]
secret=TheActualPasswordIsOnThisLine
read=system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user,originate,cdr
write=system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user,originate,cdr
EDIT: After some further digging, it seems that the only events which are showing up are Cdr events, so even things like peer registration events don't show up. I've also confirmed that all of my Asterisk 13.19.0-1 servers are exhibiting this behavior, and the only working servers are running much older versions of Asterisk.
The weird thing is that calls do come through successfully, so the problem is not that I'm missing some necessary module. (Or maybe I am? Is there some "make events show up in AMI" module that I need to ensure is loaded?)
FURTHER EDIT: I was able to turn on CEL events (Channel Event Logging), and those events show up, but this is a different set of events than the standard Newchannel/Newstate/etc I'm looking for. In theory I could rewrite a large portion of my service to use the CEL events, but ideally I'd just turn on the standard Newstate/Newchannel/Hangup events.
It turns out the issue is that I was missing
enabled=yes
in my manager.conf. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone in the future: even if you're able to connect to AMI, log into AMI, receive some events from AMI, and send commands to AMI and get responses back, it might not be enabled, and this will suppress most of the core events like Newchannel, Newstate, etc.
One clue was that running manager show settings in the asterisk console returned this:
Global Settings:
----------------
Manager (AMI) No
...
which is apparently how it indicates that it's not enabled.

Asterisk 11 Who Hanged Up?

I do have an Asterisk 11 PBX and I'm developing an Windows Service application using the github AsterNET.AMI Library to connect my PBX. Till here everything is working fine, I can send commands and read incoming event messages.
But now I need to develop a feature on my software based over one information that I thought it could be easy to retrieve. The information I'm looking for is - who hanged up?
I googled for it a lot and I could find a few answers, most of them talking about setup the G option on CDR but also some considerations about this approach. Still like this I couldn't grab any valuable information for my scenario.
Maybe if I tell you about my working scenario you could help me. Lets go, I'm going to bullet split this:
I do have a caller calling from a cellphone and this calling are incoming to my internal PBX extension
My PSTN trunk is a E1/R2 directly to my PBX
No matter if caller or callee hangs up always I do have "normal clearing" message for hangup_cause
I know I'm receiving from my service provider the information about the releasing device, because if I use my Siemens 3800 Hipath over CSTA I can retrieve this information.
So the gold question is: How can I retrieve who is the releasing device on this situation?
You can try a combination of g and F options in the Dial application. The g option allows dialplan execution when the called party hangs up, while the F option allows you to continue execution to a context,extension,priority of your choice if the caller hangs up.
So, you can understand which party is hanging up by the dialplan being executed after the call ended.
Find here more info on these options: https://www.voip-info.org/asterisk-cmd-dial/
The only way I could find after read Asterisk doc almost entirely was reading HangupRequest event messages.
As I'm using AsterNet.AMI library to connect and manage my Asterisk, so I change the source code a little bit to have an event handler do read HangupRequest event.
HangupRequest event writes the messages like the following one:
Event: HangupRequest
Privilege: call,all
Channel: SIP/8103-000001be
ChannelState: 6
ChannelStateDesc: Up
CallerIDNum: 8103
CallerIDName: Agent 8103
ConnectedLineNum: 51999887766
ConnectedLineName: 51999887766
Language: en
AccountCode:
Context: from-internal
Exten: 8100
Priority: 1
Uniqueid: 1569618521.446
Linkedid: 1569618519.445
So accordly to HangupRequest Event Asterisk documentation I could notice the channel in the message is the channel related to the releasing device, also CallerIDNum and CallerIDName are related to.
This feature is not implemented right now on the github library, but I'm going to push over there and ask them to include on next release.
Yet I don't know where to read this information on FreePBX Admin.

Trigger event on Master and wait for "response event" on Salt Minion

What I want is an RPC-like behavior invoked by the Minion put into some kind of script which can then be invoked by any (non-Salt, non-Python) application and service:
trigger an event on the Master (payload corresponds to command line arguments)
the Reactor system takes over, processes the event and (depending on the sender and the payload of the event) sends a response event.
the response event may contain a sensitive payload and may not be seen (or at least decrypted) by any other minion
the Minion receives the response event
I know that I can send events to the master using salt-call and the salt.modules.event.fire_master module.
So how do I wait for the response event?
And how do I ensure the response event cannot be seen on the event bus by other Minions (afaik all events send from the Master are public, and filtering happens Minion-side)? I thought about the gpg renderer, but this might be way too complicated - there need to be a way as the Master need to send the sensitive Pillar data to the Minions with similar requirements.
I got stuck on this issue as well, but I managed to stumble on what you need. The answer is in salt's aptly named: saltmod.wait_for_event
But if you'll note that state is identified as intended only for the salt-master. What that actually means is that it can be used on a minion, but you've got to change the node='master' kwarg to node='minion'. Here's an example state file that sends an event (which triggers a reactor to fire a runner) and then waits 60 seconds for the salt-master to send an event back to the minion (which the runner sends back on a successful run):
salt/custom/trigger_runner:
event.send
wait_for_event_runner_return:
salt.wait_for_event:
- name: salt/custom/runner_complete
- timeout: 60
- id_list:
- {{ grains.id }}
- node: minion

Android BLE - BT stack alarm errors

I'm trying to get basic Bluetooth LE connections working in my app, but I'm running into problems. I have a couple of sensors that I can connect to just fine with the iOS version of this app, but I simply cannot connect to them with the Android version. The only thing I seem to be able to connect to is a beacon I've set to configuration mode.
After checking my ADB logs again, I noticed that whenever it fails to connect to a device, there's always four calls to bt_osi_alarm and bta_gattc_conn_cback. I'm wondering how to interpret this.
An unsuccessful connection attempt:
D/BluetoothGatt(17824): connect() - device: 00:17:E9:C0:86:14, auto: false
E/bt_osi_alarm(14357): reschedule_root_alarm alarm expiration too close for posix timers, switching to guns
...
E/bt_osi_alarm(14357): reschedule_root_alarm alarm expiration too close for posix timers, switching to guns
E/bt_osi_alarm(14357): reschedule_root_alarm alarm expiration too close for posix timers, switching to guns
E/bt_osi_alarm(14357): reschedule_root_alarm alarm expiration too close for posix timers, switching to guns
...
W/bt_btif (14357): bta_gattc_conn_cback() - cif=3 connected=0 conn_id=3 reason=0x0002
W/bt_btif (14357): bta_gattc_conn_cback() - cif=4 connected=0 conn_id=4 reason=0x0002
W/bt_btif (14357): bta_gattc_conn_cback() - cif=5 connected=0 conn_id=5 reason=0x0002
W/bt_btif (14357): bta_gattc_conn_cback() - cif=6 connected=0 conn_id=6 reason=0x0002
D/BtGatt.GattService(14357): onConnected() - clientIf=6, connId=0, address=00:17:E9:C0:86:14
D/BluetoothGatt(17824): onClientConnectionState() - status=133 clientIf=6 device=00:17:E9:C0:86:14
I/mono-stdout(17824): BLEAdapter.OnConnectionStateChange()
I/mono-stdout(17824): Gatt disconnected!
A successful connection attempt to one of those beacons does not have these sets of four bt_osi_alarm and bta_gattc_conn_cback errors. Preferably if someone knows the Android source well, hopefully they can tell me what's going on. It's a long shot I know, but I'm kinda out of options. Thanks.
Some additional information might help the community debug this issue for you. Please add the following to your original question:
Make/Model/Revision of all BLE devices that you've tested and whether or not each one works
Specific android device you have tested with
The error your app gets and at what step it fails
Are you able to get a BluetoothDevice
Does it fail when calling connectGatt()
Is your app written in java/android studio, or is this some kind of universal app that runs on both iOS and Android?
In my experience, alarm expiration too close for posix timers, switching to guns, isn't as serious as its error level suggests. On my nexus 7/marshmallow device, I see this message constantly while connected to a bluetooth device (serial profile, not BLE) so I don't think this is a bug.
I suggest checking up on the BLE device manufacturer to see if there are any firmware upgrades for them too.
More details on alarm expiration too close for posix timers, switching to guns
What's happening is some part of the android bt code is setting a very short timer. So short, that it expires before the app can measure it.
The error, alarm expiration too close for posix timers, switching to guns, was added to android source in a commit 081e4b67b44a5fd397c2d79a5566e11ae52d4aca
The commit message gives us more background on what is happening.
Ensure alarms are called back when they expire in the past
Turns out the posix timers we're dealing with aren't well behaved.
If the timer is TIMER_ABSTIME the following is supposed to be true:
"If the specified time has already passed, the function shall succeed
and the expiration notification shall be made."
But alas, this is not the case. If the expiration time happens to be
in the past (e.g. very short timer which gets hit with a context
switch before the timer can be set) the timer decides to disarm
itself. This means no more callbacks happen, and no more alarms are
processed ever.
sadness.
But thankfully, we can use timer_gettime to check the state of the
timer after timer_settime. If timer_gettime tells us the timer is
disarmed right after we armed it, we want to perform the alarm
callback ourselves.
Put all timer callbacks on the same thread (as would be the case in
the underlying timer implementation already) and used a sempahore to
signal when an alarm expires in the normal posix timer callback and
also in the timer didn't set case.
The code also includes the following comments
If next expiration was in the past (e.g. short timer that got context
switched) then the timer might have diarmed itself. Detect this case
and work around it by manually signalling the |alarm_expired|
semaphore.
It is possible that the timer was actually super short (a few
milliseconds) and the timer expired normally before we called
|timer_gettime|. Worst case, |alarm_expired| is signaled twice for
that alarm. Nothing bad should happen in that case though since the
callback dispatch function checks to make sure the timer at the head
of the list actually expired.

How to configure Asterisk realtime with mysql properly?

I currently have over 1k realtime users setup on a MySQL server(only 10-20 users will register simulatneously) for Asterisk. The problem is the sip is not registering evertime. Sometimes I get 'registration timeout'. Is there a setup guide or a setting which I need to configure in order to have >99% successful registrations?
Never faced the issue as I have fewer users.
But according to the aterisk documentation:
If you have problems with your network connection going up and down (e.g. an unreliable cable connection) and you keep losing your sip registry, you may want to add registerattempts and registertimeout settings to the general section above the register definitions.
Setting registerattempts=0 will force Asterisk to attempt to reregister until it can (the default is 10 tries).
registertimeout sets the length of time in seconds between registration attempts (the default is 20 seconds).
About achieving 99% success:
I think you have to study your system and apply setting to the above variables accordingly (dynamically). I suggest using Markovian models like mm1 simulation if your system is not complicated.

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