SOAPUI AXL update phone description CUCM version 12.5

[Tony_M_W]

I am trying to update phone description via SOAPUI AXL. It can update 1 phone description successfully.
How can I update a batch of phone using this update phone description script?

update 1 phone description

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns="http://www.cisco.com/AXL/API/12.5">

<soapenv:Header/>

<soapenv:Body>

 <ns:updatePhone>

 <name>SEP************</name> <description>****</description>

 </ns:updatePhone>

</soapenv:Body>

</soapenv:Envelope>

[npetrele]

There is no batch updatePhone API in AXL. I recommend you write a simple script (python and zeep would work well) that loops and reads a list of phones/descriptions and performs the update for each one.

Here are a bunch of python/zeep/AXL samples:

https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/axl-python-zeep-samples

You don't have to use Python. Other languages work well with SOAP.

[JasunKAR]

Howdy!  Someone already pointed you at the GitHub for the zeep stuff.  I'd definitely start there as that'll show you how to build your authentication.  You'll need a user that has axl creds in CUCM.  Along with that your script will look like this if you are just wanting to change a bunch of phones descriptions.  

.csv format should be phone mac in first column and phone description in second column.  NO COLUMN HEADERS

example:

SEP6CF1B3D29C,My Phone Description

CSFJohnDoe,My Other Phone Description

# type in your full path with file name.csv

filePath=input('Enter path and file name to your input file: ')

# Iterates through csv to update your phones

with open(filePath) as f:

    reader = csv.reader(f)

    for phoneMAC, phoneDesc in reader:

        resp = service.updatePhone(name = phoneMAC, description = phoneDesc)

        print(resp)