RE: CUCM testing environment http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_recent_posts?p_l_id= 2013-05-22T11:13:15Z 2013-05-22T11:13:15Z David Staudt http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=10019525 2012-05-17T16:43:25Z 2012-05-17T16:43:25Z

Yes, UCM is treated as an 'appliance' or holistic system, and after completing the UCM installation into a VM, the UCM system will be fully installed, up and running.  The backing database is automatically created, started and populated - however note you will need to manually enable/start the AXL API service (and likely other services like Callmanager and TFTP if you intend to register phones and make test calls) - please see the UCM admin guides for details on service management.

David Staudt 2012-05-17T16:43:25Z David Staudt http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=10019519 2012-05-16T22:46:39Z 2012-05-16T22:46:39Z

Yes, that looks like the 8.6 NFR bundle link.   The AXL SQL Toolkit contains the actual AXL WSDL/schema files and some Java example code.  This file is actually downloaded from the UCM instance itself via the administrative web pages under Application/Plugins.

David Staudt 2012-05-16T22:46:39Z David Staudt http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=10019513 2012-05-16T21:40:35Z 2012-05-16T21:40:35Z

In order to query provisioning/configuration data in UCM as you describe - users/devices/DNs, etc. - you will want to look at the AXL SOAP API:   http://developer.cisco.com/web/axl/docs   To get started with this API at minimum you will need an instance of UC Manager - here is the Getting Started page for AXL:   http://developer.cisco.com/web/axl/start   If you have already developed a UCM CDR application I would assume you have a UCM instance and you can just enable the AXL API service on it and start using it.  If not, the simplest scenario is to obtain the UCM installation media via the UC NFR kit (see Getting Started) above, and install it into a VMWare virtual machine.  UCM is officially supported for production use only on specific Cisco UCS servers running specific versions of VMWare, but it is known to run on any modern version of VMWare (including the free versions), which should be suitable for basic AXL development.   If you are testing for high scalability, cluster/failover support, etc. in support of large deployments you may need to eventually consider provisioning a hardware-based UCM lab - CDN partner hardware/software discount program can help.

David Staudt 2012-05-16T21:40:35Z