Cisco Systems 7970G manual Adding Phones with Auto-Registration and Taps

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

Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified CallManager Database

Adding Phones with Auto-Registration and TAPS

You can add phones with auto-registration and TAPS without first gathering

MAC addresses from phones.

Note Cisco recommends you use auto-registration and TAPS to add less than 100 phones to your network. To add more than 100 phones to your network, use the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT). See the “Adding Phones with BAT” section on page 2-16.

TAPS, the Tool for Auto-Registered Phones Support, works with the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT) to update phones that were already added to the Cisco Unified CallManager database with dummy MAC addresses. Use TAPS to update MAC addresses and download pre-defined configurations for phones.

To implement TAPS, you or the end-user dial a TAPS directory number and follow voice prompts. When the process is complete, the phone will have downloaded its directory number and other settings, and the phone will be updated in Cisco Unified CallManager Administration with the correct MAC address.

Auto-registration must be enabled in Cisco Unified CallManager Administration (System > Cisco CallManager) for TAPS to function.

Note When you configure the cluster for mixed mode through the Cisco CTL client, auto-registration is automatically disabled. When you configure the cluster for non-secure mode through the Cisco CTL client, auto-registration is automatically enabled.

Refer to Cisco Unified CallManager Bulk Administration Guide for detailed instructions about BAT and about TAPS.

Related Topics

•Adding Phones with Auto-Registration, page 2-14

•Adding Phones with Cisco Unified CallManager Administration, page 2-16

•Adding Phones with BAT, page 2-16

Cisco Unified IP Phone Administration Guide for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.1 (SIP), Cisco Unified IP Phones

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