[cisco-voip] PowerShell Provider for CUCM

[Hunter Fuller]

If the password is encrypted, where do you securely store the encryption
key?

If that encryption key needs to be stored securely, do you encrypt it?
Where do you store *that* encryption key?

etc etc.


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On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 8:19 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

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> Nothing, unfortunately. I haven’t had the opportunity to research options
> and build a solution. Quite honestly, I’ve been stuck on password
> requirements. I don’t feel comfortable storing passwords in plaint text,
> regardless of permissions.
>
> I would _love_ it if you could set up private keys for ssh sessions, then
> I’d use expect ‘til the cows come home.
>
> From what I recall, in Windows scheduler, there was an encryption option.
> But it’s been ages since I last used it.
>
> *-sent from mobile device-*
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> On Oct 25, 2018, at 8:15 PM, Anthony Holloway <
> avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That is a benefit for sure.  What do you schedule and automate today in
> CUCM?
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 5:59 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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>> I’d appreciate CLI over GUI for one big reason… cronjobs.
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>> I know this is windows, but at least I could schedule them.
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>> *Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.* | Senior Analyst
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>> Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
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>> Room 037 Animal Science & Nutrition Bldg | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON |
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>> 519-824-4120 Ext. 56354 | lelio at uoguelph.ca
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>> *From:* cisco-voip <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net> *On Behalf Of *Anthony
>> Holloway
>> *Sent:* Thursday, October 25, 2018 5:53 PM
>> *To:* Pete Brown <jpb at chykn.com>
>> *Cc:* Cisco VoIP Group <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
>> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] PowerShell Provider for CUCM
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
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>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:10 PM Pete Brown <jpb at chykn.com> wrote:
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>> Anthony,
>>
>>
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>> 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:
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>>    - Decent scripting/development background
>>    - Experience consuming REST & SOAP services
>>    - Familiar with the CUCM Data Dictionary
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> -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?
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>>
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>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 2:10 PM Pete Brown <jpb at chykn.com> wrote:
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>> Edgar,
>>
>>
>>
>> Does Variphy offer a PowerShell provider for browsing CUCM objects?
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> -Pete
>>
>>
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>>
>> *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\...
>>
>>
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>> For CUCM I was thinking of doing something like this.
>>
>>
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>>    - 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
>>
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>>    - PS> dir CUCM:\{cucmhost}\EndUsers -group Admins
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> -Pete
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