[cisco-voip] Tools to generate firmware reports

Abebe Amare abucho at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 10:37:53 EDT 2010


Hi Wes,

Thanks for the tip.

Abebe

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:

>  Abebe,
>
> Good catch. Looks like RTMT in 6.x did not expose it but the information is
> available via 'show risdb query phone' from CLI:
>
> admin:show version active
> Active Master Version: 6.1.5.10000-10
>
> admin:show risdb query phone
> ----------- Phone Information -----------
>
> #TotalPhones, #TotalRegistered, #RegisteredSCCP, #RegisteredSIP,
> #UnRegistered, #Rejected, #PartiallyRegistered, StateId
> 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 173
>
> DeviceName, Descr, Ipaddr, MACaddr, RegStatus, PhoneProtocol, DeviceModel,
> HTTPsupport, #regAttempts, prodId, username, seq#, RegStatusChg TimeStamp,
> IpAddrType, LoadId, LastActTimeStamp
> SEP001BD5846D80, Auto 6611009, 14.48.24.12, 001BD5846D80, reg, SCCP, 30018,
> yes, 1, 30044, NoUserId, 1, 1281700908, 1, SCCP41.8-5-3S, 1281700908
>
> ----------------
> Total count 1
> ----------------
>
> /Wes
>
>
> On Friday, August 13, 2010 7:27:09 AM, Abebe Amare <abucho at gmail.com><abucho at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> 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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