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Hello - I'm wondering if anyone is using Paglo to scan Cisco IP phones such as 7945s. One of our sites has these, and...
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Rick Cogley
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02/28/2010 at 00:52
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Icon_time 02/25/2010 at 23:17

Hello – I’m wondering if anyone is using Paglo to scan Cisco IP phones such as 7945s. One of our sites has these, and Paglo sees them as Catalyst switches…

Appreciate it if someone could let me know if it is possible to scan Cisco IP phones.

Kind regards,
Rick
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Icon_time 02/26/2010 at 08:56

To see if it is possible to automatically identify these phones you should have a look in the Inventory application at a phone and then go to the Classification tab. The Raw Classification section shows the information that the Crawler was able to gather about the phone across the network. This is often limited by what management interfaces the phone has open. If you see anything in this list that identifies the model then we can add a fingerprint to automatically detect it.

We have fingerprints for some Cisco phones but they depend upon the phones using DHCP and the Crawler seeing the DHCP requests, or that the phone has the web configuration interface enabled.
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Icon_time 02/28/2010 at 00:40

Hi Chris – I emailed this to support too, forgetting I posted this on the forum. I am able to browse the phones via HTTP and get a bunch of info. The information in the raw data does not look so detailed, though.
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Icon_time 02/28/2010 at 00:44

Chris – this is what I get from the raw classification for one of the phones. It’s got nothing that says Cisco.

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HTTP/1.0 303 See Other\r\nServer: Rockpile Web Server\r\nDate: Sun, 00 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT\r\nConnection: close\r\nLocation: http://10.81.2.19/localmenus.cgi?func=604\r\nContent-type: text/html\r\n\r\n<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \“-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN\”>\n<html><head><title>303 See Other</title></head><body>\n<H1>303 See Other</H1><p>The page is <a href=\“http://10.81.2.19/localmenus.cgi?func=604\”>here.</a><BR><HR><ADDRESS>Rockpile Web Server Server at 0.0.0.0 Port 80</ADDRESS></body></html>\n\nHTTP/1.0 404 Not Found\r\nServer: Rockpile Web Server\r\nDate: Sun, 00 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-type: text/html\r\n\r\n<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \“-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN\”>\n<html><head><title>404 Not Found</title></head><body>\n<H1>404 Not Found</H1>The document requested was not found on this server.\n<BR><HR><ADDRESS>Rockpile Web Server Server at 0.0.0.0 Port 80</ADDRESS></body></html>\n\n
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Icon_time 02/28/2010 at 00:52

When the crawler decides the phone is a switch, it takes away that raw data. My phones are either “unknown” or “camera” or “switch”. The switch designation gives Cisco Catalyst or 3Com switches, it seems. It’s true these phones have built in switches though.

Cisco’s interface to these phones via HTTP, for gathering info about the phone, is set up such that the index file jumps to a CGI script. When you visit the page, the visible sidebar menus’ URLs look something like this:

http://10.81.2.19/localmenus.cgi?func=604

However, there seems to be no logic in the URLs – it’s not func=1, func=2 etc, but rather things like func=604, func=523 and so on. Kind of random.

FYI.

Regards,
Rick
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