Send Message to IP Phone

[Mike34]

We have a requirement to make some alert text messages display on our Cisco IP phones.  What are the options for sending a message to a Cisco Phone?  I read about the JTAPI sendData command which sounds like what I need.  However there are some interop challenges there to face as we are using .NET Core rather than Java.  If this is the only way then we will explore wrapping the JTAPI Client and communicate with it either via sockets or as a web service.

Before we explore that option, are there any off-the-shelf options?  Any SOAP or REST endpoints on CUCM that will allow for sending a text based message to a number of phones.  I read about WebDialer and ASX but neither seem to support sending a text message to a phone.

[davidn#]

Hi Mike,

Please check out IPPS -> https://developer.cisco.com/site/ip-phone-services/

Regards,

David

[upchaurasia]

So you have 2 options for your requirement -

- Cisco IP Phone Services where you need request phone http URL like http://Phone_IP_Address/CGI/Execute . Every Cisco IP phones runs small web service on port 80. This can be used with any platform like .Net/JAVA/Python etc

- Other method is you can use JTAPI Terminal's sendData method to post data to phone. For this you need to follow Cisco JTAPI tutorial. This can be done using JAVA.

Thanks & Regards,

Umesh