Hi,
Some folks with Cisco 89xx and 99xx series phones floating around may find the following “reboot” perl script useful. I’ve adapted this from a script written a few years ago by Matt Klein which used the telnet protocol.
This script logs into the phone using SSH, then enters the debug shell where either the ‘reset hard|soft|factory’ command is executed before closing the connection.
Here are the steps to get this working:
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[*] Install the Net::SSH::Expect perl module
At a system prompt type:
then at the CPAN prompt type
[*] Edit the variables and addresses in the script to suit your environment and place script in /var/www/cgi-bin
[*] chmod 755 reboot.pl to make it executable
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The script can be called from the command prompt giving the IP address of the phone to be reboot as an argument. Alternatively use the ‘all’ argument to reboot all phones (as defined inside the script)
Not that I’m a huge perl guru (so far from it really) but I’ve read in a few perl blogs that the reliability of Net::SSH::Expect module has been called into question, due in part to the way it detects the completion of remote commands. A more solid alternative may be to re-write the script to use Net::OpenSSH or Net::SSH2 modules, but for now it seems to be working fine for me…
Please feel free to modify and use as you wish.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Sean Simpson 2012 Please feel free to distribute
#
# perl script using SSH to reboot Cisco 4th Gen (89xx and 99xx series) phones
#
# Adapted from Matt Klein's 2004 perl script to reboot Cisco 79xx series phones
#
# Please ensure that you can manually SSH to your phone, first.
#
use Net::SSH::Expect;
$phone_ip = shift;
# Your phone SSH Username, as set in the phone SEP<mac address>.cnf.xml file
$sshusername = "admin";
# Your phone SSH Password, as set in the phone SEP<mac address>.cnf.xml file
$sshpassword = "cisco";
# The phone Debug shell login prompt, should not need to be changed
$debuglogin = "(none) login: ";
# The phone Debug shell username, should not need to be changed
$debugusername = "debug";
# The phone Debug shell password, should not need to be changed
$debugpassword = "debug";
# The Cisco CP-9971 Debug shell prompt, should not need to be changed
$debugprompt = "DEBUG> ";
# Cisco Reset Command
# Use either "reset hard", "reset soft" or "reset factory"
$command = "reset hard";
# Timeout for the SSH login
# My phone takes around 15 seconds to provide the SSH password prompt, ensure the timeout value below is set accordingly
# An insufficient timeout value will cause a script error such as, "SSHAuthenticationError Login timed out" to be displayed
# A too long timeout will also cause SSHProcessErrors, I would recommend the default setting of 15 is maintained for stability
$timeoutvalue = "15";
if ($phone_ip eq "all")
{
reboot("192.168.0.80",$sshpassword,$sshusername,$debuglogin,$debugusername,$debugpassword,$debugprompt,$command);
reboot("192.168.0.85",$sshpassword,$sshusername,$debuglogin,$debugusername,$debugpassword,$debugprompt,$command);
reboot("192.168.0.90",$sshpassword,$sshusername,$debuglogin,$debugusername,$debugpassword,$debugprompt,$command);
} elsif ($phone_ip eq "") {
print "\n*WARNING* No IP address provided.\n";
print "\nPlease enter a valid Cisco phone IP Address or enter 'all' (to reboot all phones) as an argument.\n\n";
} else {
reboot($phone_ip,$sshpassword,$sshusername,$debuglogin,$debugusername,$debugpassword,$debugprompt,$command);
}
exit;
sub reboot{
my ($ip,$sshpassword,$sshusername,$debuglogin,$debugusername,$debugpassword,$debugprompt,$command) = @_;
print "\nPlease be patient whilst Cisco phone at address $ip is reboot. This may take up to 90 seconds to complete...\n";
my $ssh = Net::SSH::Expect->new (
host => $ip,
password=> $sshpassword,
user => $sshusername,
timeout => $timeoutvalue,
raw_pty => 1
);
my $login_output = $ssh->login();
$ssh->waitfor('/'.$debuglogin.'>.*$/');
$ssh->send($debugusername);
$ssh->waitfor('/Password :.*$/');
$ssh->send($debugpassword);
$ssh->waitfor('/'.$debugprompt.'>.*$/');
$ssh->exec($command);
$ssh->close();
print "\n*SUCCESS* Cisco phone at address $ip has been sucessfully reboot using command '$command'\n\n";
}