[cisco-voip] DP's nightmare

[abbas Wali]

Lelio - go to URL? sorry which URL. you mean in the CM!!
Thanks Ed, I am trying with the inventry app link you sent. lets see what
happens.
besides who can be this 'someone'

thanks all


On 18 December 2012 13:04, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Haha i knew someone would have a easier solution
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
>> To get this information I usually go to the URL and edit it to return
>> 2000 entries, then cut and paste into a file. Do this four times and you've
>> got your 7k phones. Import the file as tab delimited into Excel and you're
>> good to go.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone...
>>
>> "There's no place like 127.0.0.1"
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2012, at 7:44 AM, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>> --
>>> @bbas..
>>>
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