System information

CHAPTER 20
Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI)
John Malkovich: I have seen a world that
NO man should see!
Craig Schwartz: Really? Because for most people it’s a
rather enjoyable experience.
—Being John Malkovich
The Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) is a system monitoring and management inter-
face provided by Asterisk. It allows live monitoring of events that occur in the system,
as well enabling you to request that Asterisk perform some action. The actions that are
available are wide-ranging and include things such as returning status information and
originating new calls. Many interesting applications have been developed on top of
Asterisk that take advantage of the AMI as their primary interface to Asterisk.
Quick Start
This section is for getting your hands dirty with the AMI as quickly as possible. First,
put the following configuration in /etc/asterisk/manager.conf:
;
; Turn on the AMI and ask it to only accept connections from localhost.
;
[general]
enabled = yes
webenabled = yes
bindaddr = 127.0.0.1
;
; Create an account called "hello", with a password of "world"
;
[hello]
secret=world
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