Asterisk PBX Manager

Monitoring Asterisk and Executing Commands

The manager is a client/server model over TCP. With the manager interface, you’ll be able to control the PBX, originate calls, check mailbox status, monitor channels and queues as well as execute Asterisk commands.

AMI is the standard management interface into your Asterisk server. You configure AMI in manager.conf. By default, AMI is available on TCP port 5038 if you enable it in manager.conf.

Events, Actions and Responses

AMI receive commands, called “actions”. These generate a “response” from Asterisk. Asterisk will also send “Events” containing various information messages about changes within Asterisk. Some actions generate an initial response and data in the form list of events. This format is created to make sure that extensive reports do not block the manager interface fully.

Management users are configured in the configuration file manager.conf and are given permissions for read and write, where write represents their ability to perform this class of “action”, and read represents their ability to receive this class of “event”.

Asterisk Documentation: http://www.asterisk.org/docs

Howto Ubuntu Gnome Blog Poster – No WordPress XML-RPC Connection Problem

I have been installing a collection of desktop apps related to administrating websites and forums, and generally keeping up to date with Twitter and Blogs etc.

Well one of those apps was a Desktop Blog publisher. I tried a few and I couldn’t get any of them to connect to any of my self-hosted WordPress sites.

I installed the Gnome Blog Poster from the Ubuntu Software Center:

http://www.gnome.org/~seth/gnome-blog/

Problem
Every time I tried to connect with my WordPress driven site, I got this error message:

Could not get list of blogs
URL ‘http://blahblah.org/xmlrpc.php’ does not seem to be a valid bloggerAPI XML-RPC server. Web server reported: Precondition Failed.

That was after choosing the option “Self Run WordPress“.

Solution
So I decided to try and connect using the other options, and eventually got it to work by choosing Self Run Moveable Type instead. Hey presto!! it worked.

So, just in case anybody else tries to use Blog Entry Poster with their own WordPress blog, now you can.