[cisco-voip] Update Specific Line Fields in CUCM 6.1(2) using BAT

[Jason Burns]

Fix your licensing problems first. If the License Unit Report web page is
reporting negative license units you won't be able to add any phones. The
problem is most likely that the licenses are not loaded, that the licenses
loaded are incorrect, or that there is a bug in CallManager (in order of the
probability I typically see)

If you go to the License File Upload page you should see at least three
licenses

Phone Unit - The DLUs for devices
Node - One unit needed for each CCM server in the cluster
Software Feature - needed for CCM service to start

The files will have a long random looking name, and have XML data inside of
them tell you how many units, and of what type those units are. You can just
look at them with a naked eye to verify that you have enough node, phone
unit licenses, and a single software feature license.

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Go0se <me at go0se.com> wrote:

>  I wouldn’t believe you about the negative DLUs except I’ve seen it with
> my own eyes… although it was on a cucumber 7 box.
>
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> <soap box> I’m shocked the Cisco licensing Nazis would allow this. </soap
> box>
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> Anyway, I don’t know what to tell you – if you delete a single phone will
> it let you add it back?
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>
> -go0se
>
> http://atc.go0se.com
>
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>
> *From:* Anthony Kouloglou [mailto:akoul at dataways.gr]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:22 PM
>
> *To:* Go0se
> *Cc:* 'Dana Tong (AU)'; 'ci >> "cisco-voip at puck-nether.net"'
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Update Specific Line Fields in CUCM 6.1(2)
> using BAT
>
>
>
> Hi Goose,
> i am afraid of deleting the devices and reentering them. Why?
> Because all the device licenses in this CUCM were produced by upgrading the
> previous 4.1 CCM.
> In that way, i have a -XXX device units.
> Were the system allow me to delete these devices and then reenter them?
>
> Cheers
> Anthony
>
> Go0se wrote:
>
> There is an UPDATE feature but unless I’m misunderstanding your request it
> won’t do what you want to do. If you want to change the external phone
> number mask field on every line with an extension that begins with X to
> 234555XXXX or if you want to change the forward busy internal destination to
> 4500 on every phone in a certain calling search space then the UPDATE tool
> is perfect. But if you want it to change the line text label to something
> different on each line of 1000 phones (each line text label has  a different
> value), then the update tool won’t work. Your description of what you are
> trying to achieve is vague – I assume that you want to have a spreadsheet
> that has something like:
>
>
>
> EXT         NEW LINE TEXT LABEL
>
> 1000       Joe Smith
>
> 1001       Bob Jones
>
> 1003       Ann Johnson
>
> 1307       Mike Regal
>
> (and so on)
>
>
>
> And then you want BAT to go thru the above file and if it finds ext. 1000
> then it should overwrite the existing line text label with Joe Smith and
> then on ext. 1001 replace the existing line text label with Bob Jones, etc.,
> etc. It won’t to this. If this is what you want I don’t know of any other
> way than either AXL or deleting and recreating the phones (or updating each
> line manually).
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> If anyone else knows of an easier or better way it I’m all ears.
>
>
>
> -Go0se
>
> http://atc.go0se.com
>
>
>
> *From:* Anthony Kouloglou [mailto:akoul at dataways.gr <akoul at dataways.gr>]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:38 PM
> *To:* Go0se
> *Cc:* 'Dana Tong (AU)'; 'ci >> "cisco-voip at puck-nether.net"<cisco-voip at puck-nether.net>
> '
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Update Specific Line Fields in CUCM 6.1(2)
> using BAT
>
>
>
> Hi Goose,
> you mean what Dana suggested, is not possible? I will have to delete the
> phones before reentering them?
> There is no way to update the phones?
>
> Thanks
> Anthony
>
> Go0se wrote:
>
> If you are using BAT you would need to export the phone information,
> “massage” it back into a new BAT file (or files) with required changes,
> delete the existing phones, and then re-import the phones from the new BAT
> file(s). IF YOU DO THIS BE SURE YOU HAVE AUTO REGISTRATION TURNED OFF
> otherwise all your phones will auto register after you do the delete and the
> new import will fail. If you have a lot of phones to update, I’ll give you a
> word of advice from experience… I would suggest you perform this on a small
> subset of phones first before you “shotgun blast” a large number of phones.
>
>
>
> If you simply wish to change the Caller ID on x number of phones from their
> individual extensions to say the company’s main number you can do so via the
> UPDATE LINES function (BULK ADMINISTRATION | PHONES |ADD/UPDATE LINES |
> UPDATE LINES). You can perform a query that finds the extensions you wish to
> change, then in the UPDATE LINES section check the box next to “external
> phone number mask” and in the box enter the main phone number of the
> company. You cannot, however, do a query that will parse a BAT file full of
> something like “current caller id” and “new caller id” fields getting it to
> do a glorified “search and replace”. I believe you would need to resort to
> AXL for something like that.
>
>
>
> -Go0se
>
> http://atc.go0se.com
>
>
>
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>
> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [
> mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net<cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>]
> *On Behalf Of *Anthony Kouloglou
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:22 AM
> *To:* Dana Tong (AU)
> *Cc:* ci >> "cisco-voip at puck-nether.net" <cisco-voip at puck-nether.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Update Specific Line Fields in CUCM 6.1(2)
> using BAT
> *Importance:* Low
>
>
>
> Hi,
> do i have to delete those phones?
> I cannot see anywhere update phones.
> If i try to insert phones that are already registered, i get an error
> message.
> Also, i have tried to to inserted lines with bat.xlt but i get an error
> message after i click on export to BAT format "compile error, sub or
> function not defined"
>
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