Posted by: William Bell
on Jan 19, 2010
Starting in October I began writing a series of articles about the AXL SQL Toolkit that Cisco provides with the Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM). I started the series because a friend of mine wanted to know more about how to get more granular "views" on the CUCM database. In the first article, we discussed the table structure, tables, and relationships (well, some examples at least). In the second article we discuss the AXL SQL Toolkit itself. Now, I wanted to round out the series with a real world example of using the toolkit. Let's stat with a question: Have you ever wanted to change the LDAP filter used by CUCM DirSync?
Posted by: William Bell
on Nov 24, 2009
In October I started a series on the AXL SOAP toolkit and database in Cisco Unified Communication Manager (CUCM). You can check out part 1 here. Continuing the discussion, we will go into how to obtain and use the actual tool kit that Cisco provides.
Posted by: William Bell
on Oct 17, 2009
A colleague of mine asked if I would do a blog on using the AXL/SOAP interface to execute custom queries for administrative purposes. I thought that this would be an interesting topic to cover. Though, it isn't something that can be fully addressed in one blog. So, I think this will need to be a series of blogs/articles. For Part 1 I think we will discuss the basic table structures and some key tables that are commonly queried by admins.
Posted by: William Bell
on Sep 30, 2009
Over the past year we have been helping customers upgrade or migrate from their old CallManager 4.1 system to one of the Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) appliance models. Clearly there are various options available to people who are doing this upgrade. For some folks, one approach is to stand up the new CUCM cluster in parrallel and then migrate groups of users in batches. A customer of ours is doing just that and when they engaged us, the first question they asked was: "How do we hide the directory numbers on phones as we move them to CUCM 7x?". The answer, very carefully ....