How to take a screen shot from a Cisco IP Phone

[Jose Mendez]

Procedure

Models:

"Third Gen":     7941, 7942, 7961, 7962, 7945, 7965, 7970, 7975

"Fourth Gen":   8941, 8945, 8961, 9951, 9971

1. Navigate to User Manager -> End User, locate an end user to associate to the phone.
2. Associate the IP Phone with the end user. Multiple phones can be associated to a single end user.
   
3. Navigate to Device->Phone, locate the desired phone, and record it's IP address.
4. Navigate to System->Enterprise Parameters and verify that the "URL Authentication" is pointing to an accessible CUCM server.  If the URL uses a hostname or FQDN, ensure that is resolveable by the phone.   Change the URL to using an IP address as needed.
5. Open a W: http://<IPPHONE-ADDRESS>/CGI/Screenshot Ex: ( http://192.168.1.1/CGI/Screenshot )
   
6. Enter the End User username and password to which the phone is associated.

Models 7960 / 7940

1. Go through previous step, but this time at step 5 an XML output will be returned, similar to:
   <CiscoIPPhoneImage>
   <LocationX>-1</LocationX>
   <LocationY>-1</LocationY>
   <Height>100</Height>
   <Width>160</Width>
   <Depth>2</Depth>
   \u2212
   <Data>
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   </Data>
   </CiscoIPPhoneImage>
2. Save the resulting page or Copy this output to a text file without extension, for example "7960xml"
3. Double check that  there is no hyphen before the first tag <CiscoIPPhoneImage>
4. Save to the local disk
5. Download the IP Phone SDK from: http://developer.cisco.com (search for "phone sdk" and then find the "7.1(2)  IP Phone Services SDK" link
6. Under the ZIP file there is a Tools file. Under it there is a Cip2GIF.exe, extract it to local disk.
7. Launch a command prompt (ex: Start->Run->cmd.exe)
8. Execute this command: <Cip2Gif.exe 7960xml 7960.gif>, where 7960xml is the file with the XML content from step 1, and 7960.gif is the name of the desired output file. The output will be something like:
   C:\>Cip2Gif.exe 7960 7960.gif
   
   Converting Cisco Image File 7960xml to GIF 7960.gif
   Image is 160 x 100 with pixel size of 2 bits.
   Done!
   
   C:\>
9. A file named 7960.gif will be created in C:\ folder

Troubleshooting

If the following error message is encountered, there has likely been a typo in the username and password. Try it again:

<CiscoIPPhoneError Number="4"/>

The following error will be presented if the URL Authentication under System->Enterprise Parameters cannot be reach from the phone:

<CiscoIPPhoneError Number="0"/>

Perhaps try specifying an IP address instead of hostname in the URL

Notes
This tutorial does not apply for 7985 Tandberg phones.

The following screenshots are from various phone models:

7960

7945

7962

8961

Thanks to Robert Thomas for the collaboration on this one..

[JacobMunson]

Good stuff, I have run into an issue that I am wondering if anyone else has seen. I am getting the <CiscoIPPhoneError Number="4"/> error however I have several clusters in my environment all LDAP integrated and I have tested with phones on 2 different clusters. Everything works on one but I get the error on the other. I am using the same user account so I am as sure as I can be that my user/pass are correct. I have verified that the Enterprise Parameters are set correctly and we are running CUCM version 11.0.1.20000-2.

Thanks in advance

[Andrew Dunn]

Great guide thanks!

Does anyone know if it is possible to screen grab from a connected KEM unit?

[DENNIS WEIKEL]

I experienced the following error error and was able to resove.

<CiscoIPPhoneError Number="4"/>

The trick for me is that the URL is CASE sensitive.  

The following URL was successful:

<IP address>CGI/Screenshot

 The following URL failed:

<IP address>CGI/screenshot