[cisco-voip] PowerShell Provider for CUCM

Thu Oct 25 17:52:50 EDT 2018

So why not a custom web front end then?  I mean, if you already have green
techs as your target audience, surely a GUI would be better than a CLI,
right?  And if you do plan to release this out to a larger audience, I
think you'd have better adoption of a web front in than a CLI client.  Just
my opinion.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:10 PM Pete Brown <jpb at chykn.com> wrote:

> Anthony,
>
>
> The end goal would be to give admins with little to no scripting
> experience a CLI based method of browsing, querying and possibly managing
> objects.  As far as I know, there's no way to do this unless you meet the
> following requirements:
>
>
>
>    - Decent scripting/development background
>    - Experience consuming REST & SOAP services
>    - Familiar with the CUCM Data Dictionary
>
>
> That rules out the majority of the UC folks I've worked with.  Sure,
> there's the stock web UI.  Or solutions from Variphy & UnifiedFX if you can
> convince the business to get the budget.  But sometimes it's nice to have
> an easy to use CLI option that doesn't involve the complexities of learning
> the APIs.
>
>
> Not sure if they have a provider or not.  Would be a little presumptuous
> to think I was the first guy that had this idea.
>
>
> -Pete
>
>
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> *From:* Anthony Holloway <avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 25, 2018 3:30 PM
> *To:* Pete Brown
> *Cc:* edgar at variphy.com; Cisco VoIP Group
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] PowerShell Provider for CUCM
>
> Pete,
>
> Why do I get the feeling like you already know it doesn't?
>
> Anyway, what's your use case for a utility like this?  What's the end goal?
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 2:10 PM Pete Brown <jpb at chykn.com> wrote:
>
> Edgar,
>
>
> Does Variphy offer a PowerShell provider for browsing CUCM objects?
>
>
>
> -Pete
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Edgar Salazar <edgar at variphy.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 25, 2018 1:55 PM
> *To:* jpb at chykn.com
> *Cc:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] PowerShell Provider for CUCM
>
> Pete are you looking to specifically query for these details using
> PowerShell?  You can look at Variphy's As-Built reporting, it can possibly
> save you hours of work.  You can get a 30 day evaluation license to see if
> this fits your need:
> https://www.variphy.com/products/cisco-as-built-configuration-reporting/
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> Cheers,
>
> Edgar
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> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:40 PM Pete Brown <jpb at chykn.com> wrote:
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> TLDR - Can't seem to find any PS providers for CUCM so I'm writing one.
>
>
> There are a bunch of great PS scripts out there that provide cmdlets for
> AXL operations, but I'd like to be able to enumerate and reference CUCM
> objects via a PSDrive as you can with other providers.
>
>
>
>    - PS> dir c:
>    - PS> dir SQLSERVER:\{host}\{instance}\Databases\...
>
>
> For CUCM I was thinking of doing something like this.
>
>
>
>    - PS> Connect-CUCM -host {cucmhost} -user {axluser} -pass {axl-pass}
>    - PS> dir CUCM:\{cucmhost}\Devices
>    - PS> dir CUCM:\{cucmhost}\Devices\SEP0123456789AB
>    - PS> dir CUCM:\{cucmhost}\Devices -dn 123456
>    - PS> dir CUCM:\{cucmhost}\EndUsers
>    - PS> dir CUCM:\{cucmhost}\EndUsers\myusername
>    - PS> dir CUCM:\{cucmhost}\EndUsers -group Admins
>
>
> I recently had to write a provider for another project, so it won't be too
> hard to whip one up that runs AXL queries and presents PS objects.  Maybe
> add RisPort support so device config and state data can be presented as a
> single object.  Initially it would be read-only.
>
>
> Please chime in if you have ideas on how you'd like to see this
> implemented.  Directory structure, query options, etc.
>
>
>
> -Pete
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