[cisco-voip] Rewritten CCMUSER in AXL

Lelio Fulgenzi lelio at uoguelph.ca
Tue Jul 8 16:00:30 EDT 2008


You might want to engage your help centre or MAC desk to see what sort of 
requests they get. For example, if they get a lot of people asking to modify 
the number of seconds to voicemail, then adding that may improve 
efficiencies.

Lelio
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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
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...seen on a Geek Squad patch cord: "While it is the same length, this 7' 
crossover cable
is not regulation issue for most competitive Manhattan double dutch leagues.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Simon" <bills at psu.edu>
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
Cc: "Tim Smith" <thsglobal at gmail.com>; "Cisco Voip" 
<cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Rewritten CCMUSER in AXL


>I think if we really got rolling with AXL we'd do that, point AXL to a TFTP 
>server (CM subscriber) or even just put up a dedicated AXL "subscriber" 
>server.
>
> We may or may not extend the CCMUser functionality.  At this point I'm 
> mainly interested in duplicating what's there now and giving it our own 
> look and feel and auth.
>
>
>
> Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
>> There are also service parameters that allow you to limit the number 
>> AXL/SOAP processes. We have a dedicated TFTP/DHCP server, so that's where 
>> I'd send our SOAP calls to. Let it work for it's bread.
>>  Lelio
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
>> Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
>> (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> ...seen on a Geek Squad patch cord: "While it is the same length, this 7' 
>> crossover cable
>> is not regulation issue for most competitive Manhattan double dutch 
>> leagues.
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     *From:* Tim Smith <mailto:thsglobal at gmail.com>
>>     *To:* Bill Simon <mailto:bills at psu.edu>
>>     *Cc:* Cisco Voip <mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
>>     *Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:40 PM
>>     *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Rewritten CCMUSER in AXL
>>
>>     Hi Bill,
>>
>>     Sorry. I realise how the AXL app is not on a CCM server. I have been
>>     writing my own AXL tools / scripts in VB.net :) But mostly I have
>>     been writing stuff for admin, to speed up provisioning and deal with
>>     shortcomings of BAT in CCM 4.x :)
>>
>>     The point is though that you have to send calls to a CCM server that
>>     will make the DB changes. This part can have an impact on the server
>>     obviously. Cisco has an IVT program for testing 3rd party programs
>>     and verifying they have no adverse impact.
>>
>>     Did you have plans to extend the CCMUser functionality?
>>
>>     I think the SSO I saw was Citrix - it was a while back. But it had a
>>     pre-defined list of supported apps. And then for unknown apps you
>>     could train it by performing a login, and pointing out which text
>>     boxes contain username / password details etc. It was pretty clever!
>>     I'm not sure how it managed a password change though!
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Tim
>>
>>     On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Bill Simon <bills at psu.edu
>>     <mailto:bills at psu.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>         The point is that it's NOT on a publisher or any Call Manager.
>>
>>         The AXL app, hosted on a separate machine, can point to the
>>         publisher for the SOAP calls.
>>
>>         As for filling in auth fields ... I don't know.  Not ours.
>>          Doesn't sound like a SSO, more like a login macro or something.
>>
>>         Maybe you could proxy credentials through to CCMUser on 6.x but
>>         I know there's some javascript at work on the login screen that
>>         may frustrate such attempts.
>>
>>         Tim Smith wrote:
>>
>>             It is an approved way to go... but would it be a dedicated
>>             publisher? or would it be call processing as well?
>>
>>             Dont most SSO solutions fill in web page auth fields for you
>>             if you train them?
>>
>>             Cheers,
>>
>>             Tim
>>
>>             On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Bill Simon <bills at psu.edu
>>             <mailto:bills at psu.edu> <mailto:bills at psu.edu
>>             <mailto:bills at psu.edu>>> wrote:
>>
>>                By the way, we did this before by hacking up the CCMUser
>>             in 4.x.  As
>>                we look forward to moving to 6.1, hacking up the web site
>>             itself is
>>                not an option so we're looking for a more Cisco-approved
>>             way of
>>                doing it.  AXL seems to be the direction to go.
>>
>>
>>
>>                Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
>>
>>                    I too am interested in this.
>>
>>                    Lelio
>>                  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>                    Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
>>                    Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph,
>>             Ontario
>>                    N1G 2W1
>>                    (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
>> 
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>                    ...seen on a Geek Squad patch cord: "While it is the 
>> same
>>                    length, this 7' crossover cable
>>                    is not regulation issue for most competitive
>>             Manhattan double
>>                    dutch leagues.
>>                    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Simon"
>>             <bills at psu.edu <mailto:bills at psu.edu>
>>                    <mailto:bills at psu.edu <mailto:bills at psu.edu>>>
>>
>>                    To: "Cisco Voip" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>>             <mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
>>                    <mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>>             <mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>>>
>>
>>                    Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:26 PM
>>                    Subject: [cisco-voip] Rewritten CCMUSER in AXL
>>
>>
>>                        Has anyone rewritten the CCMUser interface in AXL 
>> or
>>                        otherwise?  Or know a company that does this sort
>>             of thing?
>>
>>                        Specifically, we want to provide CCMUser to our
>>             users but
>>                        use our single sign-on system for authentication
>>             and then
>>                        CCM's internal LDAP for authorization.  But even
>>             if this
>>                        specific task hasn't been done, I'm interested in
>>             hearing
>>                        about anyone's experience rewriting CCMUser.
>>
>>                        Bill
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