asterisk users - Jul 2009 - Testing the manager.conf: sending and receiving commands

Hi All;

How can I test manager.conf?

Can I telnet to the asterisk machine at the port 5038 and send and receive
commands to test if the manager is working fine? How?

Regards
Bilal

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, bilal ghayyad wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> How can I test manager.conf?
>
> Can I telnet to the asterisk machine at the port 5038 and send and 
> receive commands to test if the manager is working fine? How?
Yes!

RTFM would be a fine place to start - or at least the wiki:

   http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+manager+API

I suggest preparing a file in one window with commands in it, then copy & 
paste these into the telnet window while you're experimenting.

Gordon

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:25 -0700, bilal ghayyad wrote:
> Can I telnet to the asterisk machine at the port 5038 and send and receive
commands to test if the manager is working fine?
Absolutely!
>  How?
1) Make sure manager is enabled in manager.conf (enabled=yes in
[general] section)

2) Create a manager user, and give that user permissions (see the sample
section in manager.conf named [mark])

3) Type "manager reload" from the Asterisk CLI

4) Telnet to port 5038, as shown below:

[jsmith at mybox ~]$ telnet localhost 5038
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Asterisk Call Manager/1.1
Action: Login
Username: jsmith
Secret: doughnuts
Events: on
ActionID: 12345

Response: Success
ActionID: 12345
Message: Authentication accepted

Action: ExtensionState
Exten: 555
Context: lab
ActionID: 987654321

Response: Success
ActionID: 987654321
Message: Extension Status
Exten: 555
Context: lab
Hint: SIP/linksys
Status: 0

-- 
Jared Smith
Training Manager
Digium, Inc.