[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk System Management User Interface

[Michael Loftis]

Hello Martin,

--On Monday, October 18, 2004 13:58 -0500 Martin McCormick 
<martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:

> 	What kind of user interface is most common when managing an
> Asterisk PBX?  If this question sounds odd, here is what I am after.

CLI and config file editing with your editor of choice.


> 	I tried looking at the archives for this list but it looks
> like the site uses javascript in the search.  I typed in the search
> terms and used the arrow keys as instructed and quickly realized that
> nothing was going to happen except for a repaint of the screen, a very
> javascriptish sort of failure mode.

I'm not sure what archives you were looking at but the ones for this list 
do not have search capability.  In order to search the list archives here 
your best bet is to use Google and enter in a restriction with 
"site:lists.digium.com" followed by your search terms.  The official 
archive URL is listed at the bottom of each message.

> 	Basically if command and control of an Asterisc system can be
> done with scripting or from the command line, that is good.  We all
> know that the CLI is not always pretty, but it can get the job done
> and no CLI sometimes means that certain automation is impractical.

Yup there is a full CLI available, commands can be executed interactively 
or directly via the shell command line using a combination of -r and -x 
flags to the asterisk command.  There's also a more powerful sockets based 
'manager API' that allows a written application to have more control, and 
do more, as well as listen to events happening inside of Asterisk.


> 	I suspect that this is not the case with Asterisk.  I want to
> hear your collective thoughts.

Nope, it most certainly is not.  There are a few GUI apps out there, and 
asterisk I think even offers a Gnome or KDE UI as an option -- not sure on 
those though, never used them, my pbxen have never even had an X server.

HTH!