asterisk users - Nov 2006 - Asterisk Manager: equivalent of 'show channels'?

I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has worked around this issue:

 

I have an application that needs to check the status of the calls going
through Asterisk about every 5 seconds or so.  I don't want to do
"asterisk -rx 'show channels verbose'" at the Linux command
line 12
times per minute so I am looking at the AMI.  I see that there isn't a
manager command for 'show channels.'  Has anyone come up with an
equivalent of 'show channels' using the extant manager commands?  If so,
could you post how you did it?

 

Thanks!  

-MC

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take a look at Flash Operator Panel, as far as i know they use AMI , and
they also provide "real time channel status".

On 11/18/06, Michael Collins <mcollins@fcnetwork.com>
wrote:
>
>  I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has worked around this issue:
>
>
>
> I have an application that needs to check the status of the calls going
> through Asterisk about every 5 seconds or so.  I don't want to do
"asterisk
> ?rx 'show channels verbose'" at the Linux command line 12
times per minute
> so I am looking at the AMI.  I see that there isn't a manager command
for
> 'show channels.'  Has anyone come up with an equivalent of
'show channels'
> using the extant manager commands?  If so, could you post how you did it?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -MC
>
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As far as I know, you can do something like this, i.e. in PHP:
fputs($socket, "Action: Command\r\n");
fputs($socket, "Command: show channels concise\r\n");

I hope that helps, but perhaps there is a better possibility.

NB


Michael Collins schrieb:
>
> I?m interested in knowing if anyone else has worked around this issue:
>
> I have an application that needs to check the status of the calls 
> going through Asterisk about every 5 seconds or so. I don?t want to do 
> ?asterisk ?rx ?show channels verbose?? at the Linux command line 12 
> times per minute so I am looking at the AMI. I see that there isn?t a 
> manager command for ?show channels.? Has anyone come up with an 
> equivalent of ?show channels? using the extant manager commands? If 
> so, could you post how you did it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -MC
>
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On Saturday 18 November 2006 13:28, Michael Collins
wrote:
> I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has worked around this issue:
>
>
>
> I have an application that needs to check the status of the calls going
> through Asterisk about every 5 seconds or so.  I don't want to do
> "asterisk -rx 'show channels verbose'" at the Linux
command line 12
> times per minute so I am looking at the AMI.  I see that there isn't a
> manager command for 'show channels.'  Has anyone come up with an
> equivalent of 'show channels' using the extant manager commands? 
If so,
> could you post how you did it?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -MC
An approach i take with my event monitor is to have a manager application 
register for all events, then when something in asterisk happens you get an  
event record. No need to 'poll' to check. Then you can easily determine
what
is going on. 

http://micpc.com/eventmonitor uses the event records to display the state of 
phones, channels, etc. 'realtime' with AJAX without polling.


earl

Michael Collins wrote:
> I?m interested in knowing if anyone else has worked around this issue:
>
> I have an application that needs to check the status of the calls 
> going through Asterisk about every 5 seconds or so. I don?t want to do 
> ?asterisk ?rx ?show channels verbose?? at the Linux command line 12 
> times per minute so I am looking at the AMI. I see that there isn?t a 
> manager command for ?show channels.? Has anyone come up with an 
> equivalent of ?show channels? using the extant manager commands? If 
> so, could you post how you did it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -MC
>
you need to look again
maybe read, http://www.dynx.net/ASTERISK/DOCS/RTF/MANAGER.RTF

action: command
command: show channels

Response: Follows
Privilege: Command
Channel Location State Application(Data)
0 active channels
0 active calls
--END COMMAND--


goodluck

On 18 Nov 2006, at 17:28, Michael Collins wrote:
> I?m interested in knowing if anyone else has worked around this issue:
>
>
>
> I have an application that needs to check the status of the calls  
> going through Asterisk about every 5 seconds or so.  I don?t want  
> to do ?asterisk ?rx ?show channels verbose?? at the Linux command  
> line 12 times per minute so I am looking at the AMI.  I see that  
> there isn?t a manager command for ?show channels.?  Has anyone come  
> up with an equivalent of ?show channels? using the extant manager  
> commands?  If so, could you post how you did it?
I'm thinking of building an SNMP based monitor for asterisk -
What level of data would you want displayed ?
I was thinking of having a per-host overview with:

Loadaverage
Total in-use channels
uptime

Then a more detailed breakdown (in a pop-up) giving details of the  
channel
technologies etc.

And perhaps a final level allowing inspection of individual calls.

Have I missed out any vital measures ? Bandwidth used perhaps ?


Tim Panton

www.mexuar.net
www.westhawk.co.uk