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Python Wrappers for Cisco CUCM SOAP APIs

Free software: MIT license

Overview

The ciscocucmapi package is inspired by the most excellent webexteamssdk Python API wrapper for Cisco Spark. The library wraps a python-zeep client to manage CUCM SOAP connections (specifically for AXL) and CRUD operations for common API endpoints.

Simplified Pythonic wrappings of Cisco UC SOAP APIs
python-zeep-based client under the hood - much faster than suds. WSDL caching is enabled by default.
Complete abstraction of AXL SOAP API - no xml!
Native Python tooling includes:
- Native returned AXL data objects modelled with a dict-like interface and characteristics
- xml order is honoured due to OrderedDict implementation
- AXL crud operations supported using both Python objects and native AXL calling requirements
Transparent sourcing of AXL credentials from local environment variables
Easy, template-able reading and writing to JSON objects, making Cisco UC DevOps implementations a reality

Documentation

https://ciscocucmapi.readthedocs.io/

Installation

At the command line:

pip install ciscocucmapi

You can also install the in-development version with:

pip install https://github.com/jonathanelscpt/ciscocucmapi/archive/master.zip

Quick Start

from ciscocucmapi import UCMAXLConnector
import json


axl = UCMAXLConnector(username='axl', password='password', fqdn='192.168.99.99')

# adding phones
ipphone_attributes = {
    "name": "SEPDEADDEADDEAD",
    "product": "Cisco 8821",
    "devicePoolName": "US_NYC_DP",
}
axl.phone.add(**ipphone_attributes)

# api endpoints can be created prior to invoking axl method-calling for pre-processing
new_bot_device = axl.phone.create()
# very useful API template development!
with open("/path/to/templates/phone.json", "w") as _:
    json.dump(axl.phone.model(), _, indent=4)

# getting existing phones with null-string dicts or lists of `returnedTags`
dead_device = axl.phone.get(name="SEPDEADDEADDEAD",
                            returnedTags={"name": "", "devicePoolName": "",
                                          "callingSearchSpaceName": ""})
beefy_device = axl.phone.get(name="SEPBEEFBEEFBEEF",
                             returnedTags=["name", "devicePoolName", "callingSearchSpaceName"])

# listing phones by name
nyc_bot_attrs = {
    "name": "BOT%",
    "devicePoolName": "US_NYC%",
    "callingSearchSpaceName": "US_%"
}
nyc_bot_devices = axl.phone.list(searchCriteria=nyc_bot_attrs,
                                 returnedTags=["name", "description", "lines"])
# implicit "return all" available for `searchCriteria` and `returnedTags`
# use sparingly for large data sets!
all_devices = axl.phone.list()

# property-like getters and setters
botuser15 = next(filter(lambda person: person.name == 'BOTUSER015', nyc_bot_devices))
botuser15.callingSearchSpaceName = "US_NYC_NATIONAL_CSS"

# updating a phone
botuser15.callingSearchSpaceName = "US_NYC_INTERNATIONAL_CSS"
botuser15.newName = "BOTJONELS"
botuser15.locationName = "Hub_None"
axl.phone.update(name=botuser15.name,
                 newName=botuser15.newName,
                 callingSearchSpaceName=botuser15.callingSearchSpaceName,
                 locationName=botuser15.locationName)

# deleting a phone
axl.phone.remove(uuid=botuser15.uuid)

# Thin AXL sql querying and execution also available
numplan = axl.sql.query("SELECT * FROM numplan")
directory_numbers = [row['dnorpattern'] for row in numplan]
numplan.csv(destination_path="/path/to/datadump/numplan.csv")  # pathlib also supported

Donate

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Support

I'm open to discussing ad-hoc commercial support or custom DevOps implementations. Please contact me at jonathanelscpt@gmail.com for more information. Note that asking questions or reporting bugs via this e-mail address may not receive responses. Please rather create GitHub issues for this.