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Asterisk

The Asterisk page manages the Asterisk service, which runs app_rpt and all of your nodes. It has three tabs: Status, Settings and Console.

Status

Asterisk Status

Service shows whether Asterisk is running, when it started, its version and the systemd service name.

  • Restart stops and starts Asterisk, for example to load configuration changes.
  • Stop stops Asterisk. Your nodes are off the air until you start it again with Start.

Restarting Asterisk Takes Your Nodes Off the Air

Restarting or stopping Asterisk drops every connection to every node on the server, and runs each node's startup macro when it starts again. If rpt.conf has errors that would keep the nodes from starting, the ASL Web UI warns you and offers to open the file instead.

Registrations lists each node's registration with AllStarLink:

  • AllStarLink (HTTP) shows each node registered over HTTP: the registration server, the address AllStarLink sees for the node, the refresh interval and the state. A working node shows Registered.
  • IAX2 shows registrations made with IAX instead. See IAX Registration.

A node that isn't registered can't be reached by other nodes. The connectivity check helps find out why.

Settings

Asterisk Settings

AMI Secret

The AMI secret is the password of the Asterisk Manager Interface user admin. Allmon3, Supermon and similar tools use it to watch and control the node. Enter a New AMI secret (letters, numbers, underscore and dash; at least 12 characters), then click Review change.

Only the admin user's secret changes. Wherever Allmon3's settings (/etc/allmon3/allmon3.ini) held the old secret, the new one is written there too, and Allmon3 is restarted, so it keeps working. Update any other program that uses the AMI secret, such as Supermon, yourself.

IAX Port

The IAX port is the UDP port other nodes use to connect to this server. The default is 4569. Change it only if you run more than one server behind the same public address, and forward the new port on your router. The local nodes' entries in rpt.conf follow the new port.

Console

The Console tab is the Asterisk command line in the browser, the same as asterisk -r over SSH. Type a command and press Enter. For example, rpt localnodes lists the nodes running on the server:

Asterisk Console

The console runs Asterisk commands only. There is no system shell in the ASL Web UI. See ASL Commands and Tools for useful commands.