This app would be a nice addon for any Asterisk Sysadmin. I regulary monitor around 15 Asterisk servers, so any tool to make the talk simplier will go straight to my springboard.

I guess you would connect directly to AstMan, right? Aren't there any security implications by doing that?

Yeah, direct to Manager.

The key is to lock down access, via VPN, IP, or the AstManProxy.

I manage a huge number of servers, so would rather not have to install anything extra server side.

Basically it comes down to this - the Asterisk Manager is a part of Asterisk - if someone hammers it you have the potential to hammer Asterisk - use a VPN for access or a Proxy. After that create an account in the manager that only has access to whatever you need.

Similar security concerns as accepting external VoIP calls. If you pay attention to the particular access paths and keep them locked tight you should be sweet.

Hi, It would be cool to have a "clone" of gastman, ie visual view of server status, also a link to load a ssh client would be nice.

To tell you the truth I've never used Gastman, but last night was playing with a BSD licensed graphing library for ObjectiveC. It's pretty cool, bit of a mission to install (more that there are ~4 steps to link, include etc which are difficult to remember).

Once installed in your XCode project though it'll run on both the Mac and the iPhone, and appears incredibly powerful.

A few years back I wrote a few monitoring apps for Windows and did the graphing manually for things like concurrent channels, peer response times etc.

Lately I've been thinking I'd do a few apps, one for visual status of servers, one for status of peer etc.

In house we use an ajax app we wrote that has remote connections drawn on a map with dots that are green/red and surrounded by circles to show latency (bigger circles, higher latency).

It's a pretty useful way to see an overall status of your network as a whole.

I'm just not sure how well it would translate to a small screen. I think the key is to use a bar on a table.

I've seen the iStat app which has some nice graphs, but they are pretty small.

I don't use it myself, so if anyone else does and knows what it feels like it would be cool to know.

SSH is a different matter :)

I'm running iSSH which seems to work pretty well, but if you included it in the same app it would end up pretty heavy.

What you really need is for an SSH client to effectively register that it is able to handle certain protocols (may be possible).

Then you could have a link to ssh://user@myserver.com etc.

Will have a look and see if any do.

Cool, Looking forward to what it looks like, We also use iSSH, Nice app and the abilty to issue a commant on launch is cool. We use nagios for monitoring, and have plugins for Asterisk that report back various stats such as heartbeat status, Zap status(need to rewrite for dahdi :) ) and all channel statuses and channel counts at the time of check. Remotely we use iNag to keep an eye on it.

Ian

Great idea. nice if you can show channels, bandwith, concurrent calls and other load parameters. Thanks.