[cisco-voip] PowerShell Provider for CUCM

Thu Oct 25 23:55:32 EDT 2018

I hear ya. I may not be describing it correctly. It was in the Win2K days and I recall that when we entered all the details for the task, including a password to either mount or access something, then click schedule (running as system not a user I believe) the final product was not reverse engineer-able or editable. If we wanted to make changes, we had to create a new scheduled task.

I never really dove deep into understanding it, so I could be completely wrong about what it was doing.

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On Oct 25, 2018, at 10:44 PM, Hunter Fuller <hf0002 at uah.edu<mailto:hf0002 at uah.edu>> wrote:

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<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:

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.

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On Oct 25, 2018, at 8:15 PM, Anthony Holloway <avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com<mailto:avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com>> wrote:

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<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:

I’d appreciate CLI over GUI for one big reason… cronjobs.

I know this is windows, but at least I could schedule them.

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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.

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

Edgar,

Does Variphy offer a PowerShell provider for browsing CUCM objects?

-Pete

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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/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.variphy.com%2Fproducts%2Fcisco-as-built-configuration-reporting%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C79010b42726345a1b92808d63ab8b31a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636760962278096439&sdata=yiLXUrhKwZTJ65o5jNT%2BtWTusbdMtCPqtfDKg5jaqe4%3D&reserved=0>

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:40 PM Pete Brown <jpb at chykn.com<mailto:jpb at chykn.com>> wrote:

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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