Asterisk Manager API Action Events

Action: Events
Synopsis: Contol Event Flow
Privilege:
Description: Enable/Disable sending of events to this manager client.

Variables:
EventMask:

• ‘on’ if all events should be sent,
• ‘off’ if no events should be sent,
• ‘system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user’ to select which flags events should have to be sent.
• In asterisk 1.6 you can also have ‘reporting’ as a flag.

(NOTE: this is the *CLI help output.)

Hint: Some Events are enabled or disabled in their corresponding .conf Files too. They might be disabled by default.

NOTE:
EventMask ON does not return any immediate response, in this example below, there was nothing returned until the device unregistered (Asterisk 1.0.9):

As opposed to EventMask OFF which returns a response immediately: