[cisco-voip] Tools to generate firmware reports

Abebe Amare abucho at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 07:27:09 EDT 2010 

Hi Wes,

My CUCM is ver 6.1.3.1000-16. I don't see the ActiveLoadId column in the
RTMT device search. What can I do to get it displayed?

Abebe

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:19 PM, 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> <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><maciej.karpinski at consign.se>
> *To: *"Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> <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><maciej.karpinski at consign.se>
> > To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> > Cc: "Maciej Karpinski" <maciej.karpinski at consign.se><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><maciej.karpinski at consign.se>
> > > To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> <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> <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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