How can I check the version of asterisk I am running?

Arun Unnikrishnan picture Arun Unnikrishnan · Jan 11, 2014 · Viewed 60.9k times · Source

I am a bit confused about what version of Asterisk I am running on centos server.The documentation is different for different versions. How to know the version using putty command?

Answer

arheops picture arheops · Jan 11, 2014
asterisk -r

core show version

If that not work, you are running version <1.8 and you need do

asterisk -r
show version

Also you can try

asterisk -v

Fail that try

asterisk -V