Cisco Systems 7906G, 7911G manual Adding Phones with Auto-Registration

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

Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified CallManager Database

Table 2-4 Methods for Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified CallManager

Database (continued)

	Requires MAC
Method	Address?	Notes
Using the	Yes	Must add phones individually.
Cisco Unified Call
Manager
Administration
Using BAT	Yes	Can add groups of same model of phone.
		Can schedule when phones are added to
		the Cisco 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 Cisco Unified Communications 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.

•Quickly enter phones into the Cisco Unified CallManager database and modify any settings, such as the directory numbers, from Cisco Unified CallManager.

•Move auto-registered phones to new locations and assign them to different device pools without affecting their directory numbers.

Note Auto-registration works best when you are adding fewer than 100 phones to your network. If you need to add more than 100 phones, use the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT). See the “Adding Phones with BAT” section on page 2-15.

In some cases, you might not want to use auto-registration: for example, if you want to assign a specific directory number to the phone or if you plan to implement authentication or encryption, as described in Cisco Unified

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