[cisco-voip] Tools to generate firmware reports

Wes Sisk wsisk at cisco.com
Thu Aug 12 11:20:26 EDT 2010 

Also, 'mmfspy' from Windows is replaced by 'show risdb query' in Linux 
based versions.

/Wes

On Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:19:14 AM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:
> 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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>> > >
>> >
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