[cisco-voip] Automatically registering users to services

[Wes Sisk]

Mike,

If you must, look into modifying getservicemenu.asp, but please do not 
manually update the SQL DB.  Neither is TAC supported, but it's much 
easier to update/revert an ASP file than update/revert an entire database.

/Wes

Mike Newell wrote:

>We're adding a ton of users to our system in batches of 100-200 at a time,
>eventually adding around 2500 users.  To do this we're automatically
>generating the accounts, PINs, etc. and using BAT to add them.
>
>Our customer wants all users to have the Address Book service enabled on
>thier phones.  He does NOT want the users to have to do this themselves
>via the Web site - he wants the phones delivered to them with the Address
>Book already there.  What our techs have been doing for the few we've
>rolled out so far is logging into the CCMUser web site and adding them
>manually.  Clearly this is not an option for the long haul...
>
>The BAT utility does allow you to subscribe a service to a phone in bulk,
>but it uses a fixed username/pin so for us it's pretty useless (although
>it DOES save us from having to log into the CCMUser page as the user; a
>few steps).
>
>I've been analyzing the CCM database and it's pretty clear how the
>database reflects the subscription.  I've got an algorithm that I can step
>through manually that works and would be pretty easy to implement as a
>program or script.  My goal is to have something like a "subscribe
><phone> <username> <service> <pin>" type command.  Having gotten this far,
>I have two questions:
>
>1. Has anyone else done this in a sharable way so I don't have to write it
>myself?  The alorithm is pretty straightforward, but I'm not an MSSQL
>programmer... :-)
>
>2. While I can get the PIN from the bulk add program, I was kind of hoping
>I could find it in the database or directory so I don't have to supply it.
>So far no luck.  Anyone know where the PINs are stored?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mike
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