Asterisk manager.conf configuration

admin — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:10:40 +0000

The Manager interface is used to remotely view/change console (and other) actions. Through the use of the manager interface, you are able to send actions and receive responses very similar to the CLI interface.� However Asterisk latest version 1.4 beta has GUI manager interface which is very user friendly. Asterisk comes with Asterisk Manager API, which allows third-party software to provide external management services. And through the freely available Asterisk-Sounds add-on package, Asterisk provides a full range of canned voice messages to use with menus and IVR.

Use this procedure to connect to the Asterisk Manager:

Edit the /etc/asterisk/manager.conf:
Set the enabled option to “yes”.

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enabled = yes
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Adding a user:
user_name > The user name used to authenticate the connection
user_password > The password used to authenticate the connection
connecting_from_ip > The IP address from which you are connecting

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[user_name]
secret = user_password
deny=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
permit = connecting_from_ip/255.255.255.0
read = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user
write = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user
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Reload the Asterisk configuration.
Open a TCP socket to the Asterisk IP.
Login by sending the following string:
“Action: Login\r\n\
Username: user_name\r\n\
Secret: user_password\r\n\
ActionID: 1\r\n\r\n”
Send a command using the following format:
“Action: command\r\ncommand: command_string\r\n\r\n”

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* Sample *
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# Connect from Client (IP:192.168.0.90)
# to Asterisk (IP:192.168.0.100)
# Send command reload

Manager.conf
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[general]
enabled = yes
port = 5038
bindaddr = 192.168.0.100

[admin]
secret = password
deny = 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
permit = 192.168.0.90/255.255.255.0
read = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user
write = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user

Perl Script:
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use IO::Socket::INET;
use strict;

#Connect to manager interface …
my $manager_sock = new IO::Socket::INET

(PeerPort=>5038,

Proto=>’tcp’,

PeerAddr=>’192.168.0.100′);

# Login…
if($manager_sock->send(	Action: Login\r\n�.
	Username: admin\r\n�.
	Secret: password\r\n�.
	ActionID: 1\r\n\r\n”) == 0)

{
print Failed to send login information\n�;
exit(1);
}

#Command (reload asterisk configuration)
$manager_sock->send(Action: command\r\ncommand: reload\r\n\r\n”);
$manager_sock->close();

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