[cisco-voip] Pushing a message to Cisco 7912 phones

[Ryan Ratliff]

What about setting up an idle url with the #DEVICENAME param in it like EM uses?  This should get the phone to send it's device name to the web page, which can strip off the SEP and then compare the mac-address against the cdp-generated list.  Then just return a simple message indicating whether the phone is on UPS power or not.

-Ryan

On May 5, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:

> i would second that way...using the services button, and get a menu of choices.
> 
> trying to change the prompt is not supported and will be different for every phone.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Voll" <svoll.voip at gmail.com>
> To: "Ben Yeldon" <portunus at portunus.net.nz>
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 5:45:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Pushing a message to Cisco 7912 phones
> 
> Love the idea about updating a table via CDP of switches with backup power.
> 
> if you could make an xml app that would take there mac and compare it to your table and reply with yes or no it could be done via a simple service that all the phones subscribe to.
> 
> get to services --> power -->  does an xml get of whether it's mac is in the table and return a yes or no.
> 
> I'm not an XML guy, but if you are, I think it could be done.
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Ben Yeldon <portunus at portunus.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi List - long time listener, first time caller :)
> 
> I look after a CUCM installation at AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand.  3x CUCM 6.1(3), about 2200 IP phones (80% of them Cisco 7912 with the balance as 7940/60/70s).  Also 12x VG248s and 4x VG224s and 5x 2821s with E1s to our telcos.  Have been lurking on this list for a long time and much of the info I have read has been useful in my work so thanks to everyone who posts here!
> 
> However time for a question:
> 
> At our University we want staff to have an easy way of identifying if their phone is powered by UPS.  While we have quite a few PoE switches, not all of them have UPS supply yet.  The idea we had was when we add a UPS to a PoE switch we would add a flag to our inhouse networking monitoring system, which would automatically build a database of phones powered by PoE switches backed up by UPS by telnetting to the switches periodically and getting a list of phones via CDP.
> 
> The next step would be to push a message to the display of these phone so users could tell at a glance if they could expect their phone to work in a power failure.  One way I thought would be to browse to an XML page hosted on our server which could inform the user of the backup power status of their phone.  However I was wondering if there was any apps anyone could recommend that could push this message to the idle screen of the 7912, eg maybe replace the "Your Current Options" line so users wouldn't need to browse anywhere.  The app would need to be able to take an automated import of which phones to push the messages to.
> 
> I notice our system we use for contact centres (Zeacom Communications Centre) can push messages via CTI to the 7912 phones to replace that "Your current options" line but this is mainly for letting agents know how many calls are waiting in the queue and so on.  Anyone know of anything else similar that would be useful for us to push these messages about backup power thru?
> 
> cheers,
> ben.
> 
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