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”
Category: Software Engineering
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”
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”
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”
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”
“ls” alias in Windows
It’s such a small hack, but I’m not a Windows guy, and I get caught out multiple times a day typing ls instead of dir to view files… Read more ““ls” alias in Windows”
May the 4th… or not.
In tonight’s episode of Devs Gone Wild… Cisco just released CSCvj32935 to address an urgent issue where numerous customers reported R2-D2 appearing on their screen on the 4th of May this year.… Read more “May the 4th… or not.”
Using Multiple SSH Keys for Access Different Git Accounts
At work, I use both my companies internal GitLab and my personal GitHub account. This requires multiple ssh keys for accessing each respective account. Under Linux, this requires a… Read more “Using Multiple SSH Keys for Access Different Git Accounts”
WebEx in Ubuntu 14.04+ for x64 systems
As per Cisco’s WebEx System Requirements specification, WebEx is only supported in x86 for Linux, and for Ubuntu specifically in 12.x and 14.x with Gnome. However, most modern… Read more “WebEx in Ubuntu 14.04+ for x64 systems”
