[cisco-voip] Finding switchports for a list of phones

[Dave Wolgast]

If I were to do this, would it be phone-by-phone, or could I automate
it somehow?  In that case, I would be separating my phone inventory
rather than my switchports, yes?

On 10/24/08, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> Something to consider (not saying it's better) is to use the alternate TFTP
> configuration item in the phones. Rather than changing your networks now and
> having to change them each time a new agent is onboard or moves or whatever,
> if you configure each phone with an alternate TFTP server that points to the
> new cluster, they will join the new cluster upon phone boot up.
>
> This also avoids any issues with non-agents plugging in their phones to
> agent ports and not getting their phone to boot up.
>
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Wolgast" <dwolgas1 at rochester.rr.com>
> To: "Cisco VOIP Newsletter - puck.nether.net" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 4:34:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [cisco-voip] Finding switchports for a list of phones
>
>
> We are in the process of upgrading from CUCM 4.1(3) to 6.1(2), and while we
> are doing that, we are also splitting our single cluster into two to
> segregate traffic for our contact center per recommendation of Cisco and our
> UCCE implementation partner (also moving from ICM 6.0 - 7.2 and IPQM 3.5(4)
> - IP-IVR 5.0).
>
> Unfortunately, our contact center and non-contact center users are mixed
> among our closet access switches (16 closets).
>
> We have a list of 300-400 MAC addresses of contact center phones (those
> registered with the ICM JTAPI user), and need to search each closet stack to
> correlate those MACs with their associated switchport so we can change the
> VLANs for those ports to point to our new cluster.
>
> Can anyone suggest any slick ways of getting this done? Anyone have any
> scripting they would be willing to share?
>
> Thanks very much & have a great weekend!
>
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> Dave Wolgast
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Dave Wolgast
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