2006 Nov 05 - Sun
Phone Serial Numbers
Cisco doesn't store their phone serial numbers anywhere. So, for companies wishing to obtain SmartNet for
their installed base of telephones, there aren't too many ready ways of obtaining those serial numbers, from a
first time perspective.
To help one customer out of a bind, I did a couple of very quick and dirty scripts to scan the network for
phone devices. I know it works for 7912's, 7940's, 7960's, 7970's and ATA adaptors.
I didn't realize until later that instead of scanning the human readable pages, I could have scanned the xml
pages for the information. Oh, well. That will be for the next version.
To operate, you'll need a Perl interpreter and a couple of libraries off CPAN. Then edit
findphones.pl and
supply the ip address ranges you'd like to scan. Run the script and send STDOUT to a file.
Then run the file through
filterphone.pl to get a model
number and serial number list.
Cisco's CP-7935 and CP-7936 conference phone serial numbers are simply their mac addresses, which is easy to
pull out of Callmanager.
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Flavour Bugs
Well they aren't flavour bugs per-se. They are more like misunderstandings. Well, not
that either. The word will come to me. My issue is that I have the two flavours: .blog
and .article. Each with their own foot and head pieces. Now I have to figure out how to
meld the two into one so that I don't have to update code in two different places when ever
I make adjustments to the web site.
Looks like 'ln -s foot.blog foot.article' fixes that little conundrum.
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Blosxom WriteBacks
So far, Blosxom has behaved quite nicely. It is amazing how such a compact application can effectively do so much.
One addition I've wanted to add in order to make this site a two way street is WriteBacks. There were a few items
in the Blosxom Plugin Registry, but have been a bit uncertain as to the reliability of the code, as it really hasn't been
updated in quite some time. I finally did come across a link to
Kevin Scaldeferri's Blog, from the
Blosxom User Group Blog. He has a plugin, with recent
updates which provides WriteGack capability.
During the installation process, there are a number of things needing doing. One is that you need the flavours from
Rael's Original WriteBack Plugin. Don't install the
plugin, just the flavour files. Then install Kevin's plugin. There are some configurations in the file you'll need
to perform.
The trick with this is that you don't want all the comment submissions to happen on your main blog page, which will happen if
you put the various bits in your default story.flavour. Instead, create two flavours, I call the default flavour 'blog', and the
secondary flavour 'article'. In 'story.blog', along with the standard permanent link, you place the writeback count.
In story.article, you put the form to be posted. This draws the submission form only when viewing a single article. Use the
supplied foot.writeback for inspiration. Also, in story.article, you place the code to view the writebacks. Use story.writeback for inspiration.
Be sure to make the various variable updates in the writeback plugin, and you should be good to go, but for some formatting
and alignment issues you may want to tune.
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Blosxom Categories
I installed Todd Larason's Categories Plugin, and I'd say it is another very easy
winner. I used the 'breadcrumbs' version rather than the heavily indented and space
consuming 'categories' version.
With this, I've reached my goal of a functioning Blog with navigation, advertising, and
writebacks. For the targetback thing I havn't quite figured out how it works or what it
does. Perhaps some one could 'writeback' and let me know how it works, and what I should do
with it.
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Blosxom Calendar
I installed
Todd Larason's Calendar, changed a value in the config file to turn off caching, put two lines of code in my story.flavour
file, and presto, calendars. I wish all software were this easy.
I see he is using MovableType now. I've flirted with trying that a couple of times. I haven't quite had to
go quite
that far yet. We'll see what happens with my next project: showing a list of categories. If I can get that going, then I think
I've covered most of the basic features of a Blog site, and will want for little else. Famous last words.
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HTML Escape Codes
- For the < type <
- For the > type >
- For the © type ©
- For the & type &
- For the " type "
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