[cisco-voip] Rewritten CCMUSER in AXL

[Bill Simon]

I wanted to share with the list the approach we are taking.

We decided that our inexperience with AXL would require a significant 
ramp-up that may not be needed anyway.  The CCMUser site in CUCM 6 is 
attractive and functional and does all that we need.

I wrote a PHP reverse proxy that uses our single sign-on system to 
gather the user's ID and then posts credentials to CUCM and from there 
proxies pages back to the user, filtering some links as necessary to 
keep the user in the confines of the reverse proxy.  This works.  The 
danger here is that Cisco redesigns the CCMUser site in a big way and 
the whole thing has to be rewritten.

A better approach that we are hoping will work out is to do LDAP 
integration.  We use OpenLDAP as a directory and authorization system 
only (NO AUTHENTICATION) which complicates things quite a lot.  In the 
end, we see LDAP integration as being a better solution because it will 
allow users access to other functions as well, such as the softphone client.


Bill Simon 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
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Simon" <bills at psu.edu>
>> To: "Cisco Voip" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:26 PM
>> Subject: [cisco-voip] Rewritten CCMUSER in AXL
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>>> 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.