CUCM AXL Phone Scanner
Anyone that decided to renew SmartNet on Cisco IP Phones has discovered that unfortunately there is no easy way to get the serial numbers of all the Cisco IP Phones that are registered to the CUCM cluster. What you can get is the IP address of the phones. If you pull the webpage up for the phones you can find the serial number for the phone. While this isn’t that big of a deal for small phone deployments if you have a medium or large deployment this simply becomes an unrealistic approach.
This is where the CUCM AXL Phone Scanner comes into play. This is a small application I wrote that polls the CUCM cluster via AXL for a list of all phones registered with the cluster and their IPs. Once it has this information it goes through the phones and extracts the serial numbers from their web pages. Obviously for this to work you need to have the web pages turned on and have access to the phone’s webpage from where you can scanning it.
I have released this application for free via my blog. Please give it a whirl and let me know if you run into bugs or have some general feedback. You can find it’s page at the link below:
http://blog.crimsonsilo.com/cucm-axl-phone-scanner/