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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