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Summary:ASTERISK-30143: manager: Read and Write output from "manager show connected" is not well documented/useful
Reporter:N A (InterLinked)Labels:
Date Opened:2022-07-18 19:00:33Date Closed:2022-07-21 13:37:52
Priority:MinorRegression?
Status:Closed/CompleteComponents:Core/ManagerInterface
Versions:18.9.0 18.12.0 Frequency of
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Environment:Debian 10, Debian 11Attachments:
Description:Something weird that I've been noticing for a while,  that I just looked a little bit more closely at.

If you run manager show connected, you get something like this:

{noformat}
pbxdev*CLI> manager show connected
 Username         IP Address                                               Start       Elapsed     FileDes   HttpCnt   Read   Write
 test             127.0.0.1                                                1658188400  128         59        0         2147483647  2147483647
{noformat}

The Read and Write values are always 2147483647. (This is -1, but this is the unsigned version of that.) These are initialized to -1 in the code I believe, but can be set to other things.

I'm not 100% sure what's supposed to be printed out in these columns, but I don't think it's that. I could've sworn it was packets sent and received at some point, I seem to recall, but I seem to always get these values, before and after a reload.
Comments:By: Asterisk Team (asteriskteam) 2022-07-18 19:00:34.346-0500

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By: Joshua C. Colp (jcolp) 2022-07-19 04:17:25.553-0500

It's read and write permissions.
By: George Joseph (gjoseph) 2022-07-19 05:46:01.245-0500

Just to be clear,  read/write is a bitmask of the user's permissions.  In this case, it's all ones (all permissions) which is -1 or 2147483647.
I too thought it was packets or bytes.

By: N A (InterLinked) 2022-07-19 06:07:10.135-0500

Shouldn't we be showing the individual permissions then, in that case? I don't see how printing out a bit mask could be interpreted by anyone.
perhaps a separate line for each permission, maybe:

CDR: Read
System: No
CEL: Read and Write

or something like that?

I don't think a single column can possibly display anything meaningful.
By: Joshua C. Colp (jcolp) 2022-07-19 06:10:58.700-0500

Could it be improved? Yes. It's more of a developer CLI command as currently written.