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Setting up TR-069 to manage Calix Endpoints

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Recently one of our customers who’s got a large number of Calix E7 ONTs needed some help to automate some of the network management tasks to do with the CPEs.

We’d setup an TR-069 Auto Configuration Server (ACS) for the Calix RGs (The modems) so that we could manage the config parameters on the devices.

Setup was suprisingly easy, after installing some god-awful 90’s Java stuff to access Calix’s “CMS” we pointed everything at our ACS (Per screenshot below) and presto, a few thousand CPEs were there ready to be centrally managed.

Installing Calix CMS Java tool on Ubuntu in 2025

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Ah, another post in my “how to make software work that was made with Java in the 1990s” post, except Calix last updated this software in 2022 – make of that what you will…

This time is Calix Management System (CMS), the Java app for managing equipment in exchanges / COs from Calix.

On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS it requires JRE version 8:

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre
sudo apt install execstack

With that installed I could install CMS

/install.bin LAX_VM /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/java

Then it came time to run it, I chose to install in my home directory in a folder named “Calix” (default).

First you’ve got to make their startup script executable:

~/Calix$ chmod +x Start\ CMS

Then we need to modify it to point to the openjdk Java 8 binary, the simplest way is to just add the LAX_VM on startup:

~/Calix$ ./Start\ CMS LAX_VM /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/java

And you’re in.