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Asynchronous Javascript Asterisk Manger (AJAM)
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AJAM is a new technology which allows web browsers or other HTTP enabled
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applications and web pages to directly access the Asterisk Manger
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Interface (AMI) via HTTP. Setting up your server to process AJAM
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involves a few steps:
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Setup the Asterisk HTTP server
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1) Uncomment the line "enabled=yes" in /etc/asterisk/http.conf to enable
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Asterisk's builtin micro HTTP server.
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2) If you want Asterisk to actually deliver simple HTML pages, CSS,
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javascript, etc. you should uncomment "enablestatic=yes"
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3) Adjust your "bindaddr" and "bindport" settings as appropriate for
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your desired accessibility
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4) Adjust your "prefix" if appropriate, which must be the beginning of
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any URI on the server to match. The default is "asterisk" and the
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rest of these instructions assume that value.
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Allow Manager Access via HTTP
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1) Make sure you have both "enabled = yes" and "webenabled = yes" setup
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in /etc/asterisk/manager.conf
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2) You may also use "httptimeout" to set a default timeout for HTTP
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connections.
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3) Make sure you have a manager username/secret
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Once those configurations are complete you can reload or restart
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Asterisk and you should be able to point your web browser to specific
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URI's which will allow you to access various web functions. A complete
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list can be found by typing "show http" at the Asterisk CLI.
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examples:
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http://localhost:8088/asterisk/manager?action=login&username=foo&secret=bar
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This logs you into the manager interface's "HTML" view. Once you're
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logged in, Asterisk stores a cookie on your browser (valid for the
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length of httptimeout) which is used to connect to the same session.
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http://localhost:8088/asterisk/rawman?action=status
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Assuming you've already logged into manager, this URI will give you a
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"raw" manager output for the "status" command.
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http://localhost:8088/asterisk/mxml?action=status
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This will give you the same status view but represented as AJAX data,
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theoretically compatible with RICO (http://www.openrico.org).
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http://localhost:8088/asterisk/static/ajamdemo.html
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If you have enabled static content support and have done a make install,
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Asterisk will serve up a demo page which presents a live, but very
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basic, "astman" like interface. You can login with your username/secret
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for manager and have a basic view of channels as well as transfer and
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hangup calls. It's only tested in Firefox, but could probably be made
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to run in other browsers as well.
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A sample library (astman.js) is included to help ease the creation of
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manager HTML interfaces.
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Note that for the demo, there is no need for *any* external web server.
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Integration with other web servers
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Asterisk's micro HTTP server is *not* designed to replace a general
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purpose web server and it is intentionally created to provide only the
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minimal interfaces required. Even without the addition of an external
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web server, one can use Asterisk's interfaces to implement screen pops
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and similar tools pulling data from other web servers using iframes,
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div's etc. If you want to integrate CGI's, databases, PHP, etc. you
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will likely need to use a more traditional web server like Apache and
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link in your Asterisk micro HTTP server with something like this:
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ProxyPass /asterisk http://localhost:8088/asterisk
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This is a fairly new technology so I'd love to hear if it's useful for
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you!
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Mark
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