[cisco-voip] DP's nightmare

[Ed Leatherman]

Hi Abbas,

I don't think BAT can export the IP Address; seems to me it only pulls
things from the configuration database rather than run time info - would be
happy to be proven wrong there though. I think you are on the right track
otherwise - need a sorted list of device names so you can use BAT or some
other mechanism to update with the new DP.

RTMT can bring up the IP's of phones, i'm not sure if you can export or
copy/paste out of it into excel though.

Couple other "free" ways come to mind that could get you a list of device
names with IP Addresses.

You probably already know what IP Subnets these phones are all in -
assuming that is the case you can use a tool like this one:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cipinventory/
to scan those subnets and scrape the relevant information from the IP
Phone's webpage. I've used the script before and it works well, but you
might need to hack it a little bit to update for new phone models or
something. This might be the best approach if you cant get RTMT or BAT to
play nice.

Other way I can think of if you are comfortable with programming is to
write a program yourself to use the SOAP interface to poll for IP's from
call manager and write that to a file. Actually you could probably do the
whole process including updating the DP's in once script. For something you
use only once though, it might not be worth the time to write and test it
unless you want to learn how to do it or are already really familiar with
all the programming pieces.

You could probably screen scrape CDP neighbor information from all your
switches if they're all cisco and get device name and IP address that way.

Maybe someone else has a simpler idea.

Ed


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:11 AM, abbas Wali <abbaseo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> i have to sort out the Device pools. currently there is a mess. we have
> around 7k phone dispersed around generic meaningless DP's.
> we now are implementing SRST and have come up with new site based DPs.
>
> my job is to locate the phones and put them in the new site specific DP.
> I am clueless of where to start, may be we can download from BAT check and
> sort out by IP add in the Exl and insert back into CM just to correct the
> DP??
>
> currently i get the below if i do a search for 7975's.
>
>     Cisco 7975 SEP081FF3623B4D  Base Phone Cisco 7975 Registered with
> 172.30.213.15 172.30.200.144  Cisco 7975 SEP081FF3623B98  Base Phone Cisco
> 7975 Registered with 172.30.213.15 172.30.168.93  Cisco 7975
> SEP081FF3623C1A  Base Phone Cisco 7975 Registered with 172.30.213.15
> 172.30.200.155  Cisco 7975 SEP081FF3623E21  Base Phone Cisco 7975 Registered
> with 172.30.213.15 172.30.200.68
> any ideas!!!
>
> Thanks
> --
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>
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