[cisco-voip] Tools to generate firmware reports

Thu Aug 12 11:19:14 EDT 2010

Phones are *supposed* to report their current load version to CM in an 
Alarm message.  The alarm message is parsed and load stored in mmf 
tables in 6.x and later and visible in RTMT:

Unfortunately all devices are not playing nice. For those that do not 
you could use the report to get the IP address of the device and then 
query the phone web pages.

/Wes

On Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:55:17 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi 
<lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> I get you now. The report is what the configuration should be, i.e. 
> what the database has. But if the firmware load failed for whatever 
> reason, then you are right that data wouldn't be accurate.
>
> Thanks for clearing that up for me.
>
> Wes had a pretty neat solution for this in the Windows world, where 
> you would run an "mmfspy" on the subs, get all IP addresses that are 
> connected and pipe that into wget and parse. You could probably get 
> away with doing a blanket wget on your voice network and gathering 
> details from the home page of every phone and getting the actual 
> firmware in use from there.
>
> Hope that makes sense and helps.
>
> ---
> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
> Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
> (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it.
>                               - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Maciej Karpinski" <maciej.karpinski at consign.se>
> *To: *"Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> *Sent: *Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:48:19 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [cisco-voip] Tools to generate firmware reports
>
> No that's not really true.
>
> Phones that are not listed in the report are configured to use the 
> default
> firmware but that doesn't mean that they are using the right firmware.
> If you connect a phone with to old firmware it won't be able to 
> upgrade to
> the default firmware but it will still not be seen in the report.
>
> That is at least how it works in 7.1.5
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
>
> > You know that phones that are not listed on the report are using the 
> default firmware, you
> > can get that from the device defaults page and work backwards from 
> the file name to the
> > firmware version. Then on the report, click the link, and it tells 
> you what firmware file
> > name the phones that are not using the default firmware are using. 
> Again, from there, working
> > backwards you can get the firmware version. In actuality, if the 
> phone is plugged in, you can
> > click on the URL and get the firmware version from the info.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
> > Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
> > (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it.
> >                               - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)
> >
> >
> > 
> ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
> > From: "Maciej Karpinski" <maciej.karpinski at consign.se>
> > To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> > Cc: "Maciej Karpinski" <maciej.karpinski at consign.se>, 
> cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:01:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Tools to generate firmware reports
> >
> > That report only shows phones that have firmware other that default
> > firmware configured in phone configuration, It doesn't show what version
> > is loaded on the phone.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
> >
> > > The report I'm talking about is Device > Device Settings > 
> Firmware Load Information . Is
> > > this the one you tried? I've never seen the output you mention 
> below. But then again, I'm
> > > only running v4.1(3) and no 7925s yet.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
> > > Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
> > > (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it.
> > >                               - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)
> > >
> > >
> > 
> >____________________________________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > > From: "Maciej Karpinski" <maciej.karpinski at consign.se>
> > > To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> > > Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 8:25:42 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Tools to generate firmware reports
> > >
> > > Unfortunetely that report doesn't work for phones that have an 
> really old
> > > firmware and for wireless phones.
> > >
> > > If the "Active Load ID" in UCM says Unknown the phone will not end 
> up in
> > > the generated report. On 7921 and 7925 this field alwaus says 
> "Unknown"
> > > and also on phones with to old firmware.
> > >
> > > /M
> > >
> > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Maciej Karpinski wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
> > >
> > > > There is a device report that tells you which phones are not 
> using the
> > > > default firmware. Try that out.
> > > >
> > > > ?
> > > > Don't look at me, my iPod maid that spilling mistake.
> > > >
> > > > On 2010-08-12, at 6:42 AM, Maciej Karpinski 
> <maciej.karpinski at consign.se>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm looking fore tools that can generate reports on what 
> firmware phones in
> > > >> my network have. I have a unix script that can get such info 
> from wired
> > > >> phones but it isn't able to get this info from 7921/7925 phones.
> > > >>
> > > >> Are there any tools that can do this? Would like to have 
> something windows
> > > >> based so other people than me could generate the reports.
> > > >>
> > > >> Br.
> > > >> Maciej
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