Cisco Systems OL-8148-01 manual Adding Phones with Auto-Registration, Requires MAC Method Address?

Chapter 2 Preparing to Install the Cisco Unified IP Phone on Your Network

Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified CallManager Database

Table 2-5provides an overview of these methods for adding phones to the

Cisco Unified CallManager database.

Table 2-5 Methods for Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified CallManager

Database

	Requires MAC
Method	Address?	Notes
Auto-registration	No	Provides no control over directory
		number assignment to phone.
		Not available when security or
		encryption is enabled.
Auto-registration	No	Requires auto-registration and the Bulk
with TAPS		Administration Tool (BAT); updates the
		Cisco Unified CallManager database
		with the MAC address and DNs for the
		device when user calls TAPS from the
		phone.
Using the Cisco	Yes	Must add phones individually.
Unified
CallManager
Administration
Using BAT	Yes	Can add groups of same model of phone.
		Can schedule when phones are added to
		the Cisco Unified CallManager
		database.

Adding Phones with Auto-Registration

By enabling auto-registration before you begin installing phones, you can:

•Automatically add a Cisco Unified IP Phone to the Cisco Unified CallManager database when you physically connect the phone to your IP telephony network. During auto-registration, Cisco Unified CallManager assigns the next available sequential directory number to the phone.

•Add phones without first gathering MAC addresses from the phones.

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