Recently, I’ve decided to try out CAXL IM&Presence API (https://developer.cisco.com/site/jabber-websdk/overview/overview/) and integrate a Web chat with Jabber MUCs (chat conferences). And it turns out that XCP Web connection manager which serves BOSH interface for CAXL (or jabberwerx) can’t stand more than 100 concurrent connections. This service just went to Stopped state.
While troubleshooting that with UC serviceability web interface on CUCM (like going to Cisco unified Serviceability -> Tools -> Control center Feature services ot Network services -> choosing a node and it takes quite some time to fetch the data) I decided to write a simple GUI for this. I’ve based my server on a API’s description from here https://developer.cisco.com/site/sxml/discover/overview/service-control/.
The source is accessible from my github https://github.com/smirnov-am/cucm_srv_cc_api.
Installation should be easy: on a server with python installed, use pip to get flask and apscheduler modules and run the script. Open a browser and enter your server IP and enter srv_mon/srv_mon when it asks for credentials.
On configuration enter your CUCM and IM&P node IPs and hit Save&Run. The UCM and IMP pages should populate with service’s states:
Services that are activated and not running come first, started services are just highlighted with green, inaccessible nodes and inactivated services are grey and can be found in the end of the list.
I’m going to invest some time into it later and add service stop/start/restart capabilities to it.
It looks like you can get the same info from RTMT or PrimeCollaboration which is free if you got CUWL Pro licence. But first one is slow and the latter is very greedy for computing resources and I find my solution much more helpful when debugging service states.
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