One of my customers who is targeting a migration to 12.5 is running a number of legacy phone and VC models that will fall in the unsupported… Read more “Extracting Unsupported and Deprecated Phones Models for UCM 12.5 Migrations”
Author: jonathan
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Extracting recursive compressed file directory structures for trace and log analysis
Often when given a CUCM SDL zip file with traces spanning multiple CUCM servers or trace files per server, the trace files provided are zipped. If you… Read more “Extracting recursive compressed file directory structures for trace and log analysis”
Ubuntu Setup for Power-User SDL Trace Analysis
Arguably the most effective method for CUCM SDL trace analysis is using GrepWin for multi-file pattern matching paired with Notepad++ for trace analysis. Once you get past… Read more “Ubuntu Setup for Power-User SDL Trace Analysis”
Extracting CUCM SIP Trunk Information using SQL
I am currently overseeing a large multi-cluster deployment with literally hundreds of SIP trunks spanning almost 10 leaf clusters, plus SME. Maintaining configuration standardization on deployment with… Read more “Extracting CUCM SIP Trunk Information using SQL”
Multi-Colour grep highlighting
A really simple post, but something pretty cool I found recently was multi-colour grep highlighting for piped searches: grep ‘exp1’ filename –color=always | GREP_COLORS=”mt=01;34″ grep –color=always ‘exp2’… Read more “Multi-Colour grep highlighting”
Extracting Access Control Group and Role/User Relationships from CUCM
A buddy from TAC asked for some help with pulling a report on user and Access Control Group or Role assignments in CUCM. These were the two… Read more “Extracting Access Control Group and Role/User Relationships from CUCM”
Installing Adobe Reader for DC under WINE on Ubuntu 18.04
Yes, there are sadly still use cases that require this on Linux.. Download here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/ Select the Windows 10 option and download the bloated 150MB file. Then… Read more “Installing Adobe Reader for DC under WINE on Ubuntu 18.04”
IOS-based Tcl IVR Solution for Pre-Call Media and Business-Hours Schedule Announcements
Overview I’ve recently written a Tcl script using Cisco’s Tcl IVR Voice Gateway API. The script provides Time of Day routing. It offers the ability for streaming audio… Read more “IOS-based Tcl IVR Solution for Pre-Call Media and Business-Hours Schedule Announcements”
Uncovering IOS 15.x and IOS-XE Licensing for the Uninitiated
Cisco licensing is as best a mild irritation, but in reality, an impossibly poor, yet growing set of ill-conceived disparate implementations. IOS-XE and IOS v15.x licensing is… Read more “Uncovering IOS 15.x and IOS-XE Licensing for the Uninitiated”
Analyzing UC Application Informix SQL Tables, Columns and Data Types
Overview It is often necessary or useful to analyze a specific table’s columns and their associated data types when constructing queries for CUCM, CUCxN, UCCX etc. However,… Read more “Analyzing UC Application Informix SQL Tables, Columns and Data Types”
