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Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, 2nd Edition
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Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, 2nd Edition

by Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
20h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

ExtensionState — Checks extension status

This command reports the extension state for the given extension. If the extension has a hint, this will report the status of the device connected to the extension.

Parameters

Exten

[required] The name of the extension to check.

Context

[required] The name of the context that contains the extension.

ActionId

[optional] An action identifier that can be used to identify this manager transaction.

Privilege

call, all

Example

Action: ExtensionState
Exten: 200
Context: lab
ActionID: 54321
	           
Response: Success
ActionID: 54321
Message: Extension Status
Exten: 200
Context: lab
Hint: SIP/testphoneStatus: 0

Notes

The following are the possible extension states:

-2

Extension removed

-1

Extension hint not found

0

Idle

1

In use

2

Busy

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