Need Help getting a system inventory

[allisondk]

Guys,

I am new to NEC PBX's, we have at our site a NEAX 2000 IPS Digital w/Softkeys and a NEAXMail AD-64 Voicemail system. I need to pull a complete inventory of Phones and numbers active in the system. I would like to know the port each phone is active on (analog) and also IP address for each IP phone. Is there a easy method to pull this data, so far nothing looks straight forward and all the data is parsed in different locations from the Matworx32 software. Is there a template or a script that can run that will compile the data into a easy to read document?

Thanks

Darren

 

[belevedere]

In a word, no. You can run a LEN list which will show all of the programmed phones, TDM, IP, analog phones, virtual extensions and analog trunks. CMD 1290 by extension will show MAC addresses, but IP addresses will not show. That needs to be done from your network.
If you use the MOC mode and toggle F10 it will echo the screen to a file. That may help out.

 

[allisondk]

So is there any reports I can add to matworx to give me just a listing of inventory on phones in use/active?

 

[belevedere]

CMD 1290 gives you IP phones logged in by extension to MAC address. Phones that are logged out will show NONE for the MAC address. There is nothing for TDM phones other than inspecting the cross connects to see what is crossed in. But if the phone is crossed in and not used you will have no idea.

 

[OzzieGeorge]

There is a graphical configuration display in Matworx but it is laborious as you have to keep reading then exporting. The downside is that it will only show what is programmed, not what is connected. That said, even systems such as the Panasonic PABXs which show connected digitals, can't tell you which analogue ports have connected stations, so it isn't that unusual.

I once knew a guy who could tell by listening with a buttinski, whether a digital station was connected but it was a talent I personally never mastered and as I said, analogues are a problem. However it is possible to make an analogue detector with a Krone disconnect plug and two LEDs simply strap one side through and connect the LEDs across the other leg but with opposing polarities. Plug this into the Krone frame where there should be an analogue and ring the programmed number, If there is a phone connected the LEDs will flicker, if they don't then it is a good bet that there isn't a phone plugged in!

As for the IP phones, the Mac addresses could be out of date as there isn't any refresh other than to delete them. However this would log off all the IP phones which could be a problem!

Hope this helps

 

[phadobas]

As for digital stations, you can also measure the voltage across the tip and ring wire and will see a different voltage for those that have a phone connected to them and different for those pairs of wires that don't. I have done this often on our PBX which is a 2400ICS, and was always able to tell the difference, thus I could always tell if there was a phone connected to the port or not.
I'm pretty sure you can do that on the 2000IPS as well, you just have to figure out what the voltages are. While I don't remember the actual vaules, but the difference is 0.2-0.3VDC, so it's not that much, but always measurable.