[asterisk-users] Parsing IAXPeers from Asterisk Manager(PHP API)

[Chris Earle]

Great idea/strategy, thank you!

Going to be c00l if I can get this working

regards,

--
Chris


"Jared Smith" <jsmith at digium.com> wrote in message
news:1184856544.6910.24.camel at hockey.jaredsmith.net...
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 09:16 -0400, Chris Earle wrote:
> > Trying to do what should be a basic info retrieval from my asterisk
> > network -- get the list of IAXPeers and break down by IP, name, and
Status
> > etc.
>
> Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where the AMI output is the
> same as the CLI output, which makes it difficult to parse.  (Regular
> expressions can help, but you obviously have an aversion to them, so
> we'll use another method.) As long as your IAX peer names are shorter
> than 16 characters, you can use a trick I've used for a while... first
> get the list of iax2 peer names:
>
> Action: IAXPeers
> ActionID: 987325918659161
>
> ActionID: 987325918659161
> Name/Username    Host                 Mask             Port
> Status
> flibbertygibbit  (Unspecified)   (D)  255.255.255.255  0
> Unmonitored
> demo/asterisk    216.207.245.47  (S)  255.255.255.255  4569
> Unmonitored
> 2 iax2 peers [0 online, 0 offline, 2 unmonitored]
>
> and break on the first space or forward slash.  Once I have an array of
> IAX peer names, I use the Command action to run "iax2 show peer
> <peername>" on each of the IAX peers, like this:
>
> Action: Command
> Command: iax2 show peer flibbertygibbit
> ActionID: 762315185916555
>
> Response: Follows
> Privilege: Command
> ActionID: 762315185916555
>
>
>   * Name       : flibbertygibbit
>   Secret       : <Not set>
>   Context      : blah
>   Mailbox      :
>   Dynamic      : Yes
>   Callerid     : "" <>
>   Expire       : -1
>   ACL          : No
>   Addr->IP     : (Unspecified) Port 0
>   Defaddr->IP  : 0.0.0.0 Port 4569
>   Username     : hullabaloo
>   Codecs       : 0xe703 (g723|gsm|g729|speex|ilbc)
>   Codec Order  : (none)
>   Status       : Unmonitored
>   Qualify      : every 60000ms when OK, every 10000ms when UNREACHABLE
> (sample smoothing Off)
>
> --END COMMAND--
>
> That output is obviously somewhat easier to parse, although it's not
> perfect either.  Hopefully the Asterisk development community will
> eventually get around to rewriting much of the AMI actions to make their
> output easier for programs to parse.
>
> -- 
> Jared Smith
> Community Relations Manager
> Digium, Inc.
>
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