CE-Deploy Training Videos

In an effort to help engineers using CE-Deploy get up to speed faster, I am creating new training videos. They are short but hopefully helpful. 

In a recent survey on CED usage, xAPI deployment was by far the most popular function being used with CE-Deploy. Bulk deployment of shell commands to endpoints has always been a pain for engineers.  If you didn't know how to write a script you had to rely on Putty or some other method to bulk deploy commands to Cisco Room Systems. The video below highlights how CE-Deploy can help perform this function for both cloud and on-premise registered endpoints.

The Macro Factory is a newer feature in CE-Deploy and has proven to be hugely popular. Up until now organizing macro's deployed to endpoints was done on a per endpoint basis. Getting a macro deployed was the easy part but now you have to manage that across multiple endpoints. The Macro Factory helps solve that issue. By giving you a dashboard view of all your endpoints it helps make managing the macro footprint easier. The video below covers some of the basics in using the Macro Factory for cloud and on-premise endpoints.

On average users reported saving 10 hours a week by using CE-Deploy. If you are involved with deploying Cisco room systems CE-Deploy might just help you to.

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Getting Started with CE-Deploy

 First drop in a training video series I am currently working on to help engineers get up and running with CE-Deploy. If your a video engineer working with Webex Room Series this video is for you.

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CE-Deploy(CED) 6.1.0 for Deploying Cisco Video Endpoints

 It has been a while since I last posted. I have been busy building out CE-Deploy to make it bigger and better than ever. Last time I posted an update version 3 had just released to help deploy wallpapers and macros.

 

Dozens of new features have been added since then.  One of the features I introduced in an earlier version enabled deploying xAPI commands you would have normally used from the command line to be input straight into CED. This enabled the rollout of a xAPI commands to multiple endpoints without the need to write a script. You can use the command as it appears in the API guide. I do the conversion required to post or send it to your endpoints to the cloud xAPI to make life even easier for cloud deployments.

This one feature has been by far the most valuable to teams trying to configure their endpoints en-mas. No more writing scripts in putty, no more going to individual endpoints to configure multiple settings. If the command requires a endpoint restart, no problem. Have CED run on a schedule during a maintenance window. 

 Want to be alerted when its done, no problem. Set CED to send you a report in Webex once completed.

 

CED can also replace the use of putty for terminal sessions with your endpoints.

 

I have tried to make this the one stop shop for configuring Cisco video endpoints. With new exciting features like the dashboard for cloud, CED is expanding to help monitor your deployment as well. Below is a screenshot of the upcoming UI refresh to the cloud dashboard.

 

Other features include: 

Deploying:

• Macros and touch 10 UI to cloud or local endpoint
• Branding or wallpapers to cloud or local endpoint
• Virtual backgrounds to Deskpro
• Webex Share settings
  

Other:

• Adding local user/admin accounts to cloud endpoints
• Performing restore from backup for cloud or local endpoints 
• Delete CTL and reset endpoint for on-premise deployments (something that could only be done with a script before)
• and more .........
  

CED is not a replacement for TMS or Webex Control Hub but a tool to help supplement those services. While there is overlap with TMS and WCH, CED delivers these features in a different way. 

To get the latest version download CED here https://github.com/voipnorm/CE-Deploy/releases/tag/v6.1.0

CED now supports auto-update so any new releases for MAC or Windows you will get notified immediately on release.

Come join the CED community in Webex: https://eurl.io/#SJWfk6qUV

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