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Chapter2 Preparing to Install the Cisco Unified IP Phone on Your Network

Adding Phones to the Cisco UnifiedCallManager Database

Adding Phones with Auto-Registration and TAPS

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

MACaddresses 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 MACaddresses 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 UnifiedCallManager Administration with the correct MAC

address.

Auto-registration must be enabled in CiscoUnified 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.