ASTMAN(1)

📦 version 22.10.0, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

👑 ASTMAN — the manual page, but make it slay

okay bestie, so this is ASTMAN(1), living in the Linux Programmer's Manual section 1. buckle up 💖

✨ NAME ✨

astman — a client to asterisk's manager interface 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

astman hostname

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

astman — okay so, this program is a full-screen (terminal) client for Asterisk's manager interface. yes, like, an actual interactive thing that takes over your whole terminal. main character energy fr fr. 👑

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • hostname — the host name or IP address to connect to (on TCP port 5038, bestie, that part is not optional). and lowkey heads up: if astman fails to connect, it will exit immediately. no hanging around, no "let me try again", just gone. 💀

🧚 USAGE 🧚

so if astman has successfully connected to the manager port, it will prompt you for a username and a secret (that's a password, girlypop) for the manager interface on the remote Asterisk manager interface. yes, manager interface inside manager interface, it's giving inception 🌀

once you're in, it will be able to report existing channels (calls). and then — this is the fun part — you will be able to redirect calls to or terminate them. you. a whole icon. ending calls like it's nothing. 🔥

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so here's the tea, and it is not the good kind ☕😭

  • The hostname does not default to localhost.
  • Impossible to use a port other than 5038.
  • The username and password cannot be defined from the command-line.
  • and the author's own words, which I am legally obligated to preserve because they ate: "I mean, what's the point in a man page if the syntax is so simple?" 💅 periodt.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> 💌

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

ok and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨

sign-off time: this was astman, dated Jun 12th, 2005, tagged ASTMAN(1) in the Linux Programmer's Manual. mwah 💖🎀🦋

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