Cisco Systems 8.6 manual Adding Phones with Auto-Registration and Taps

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

Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Database

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 not automatically enabled.

Related Topics

•Adding Phones with Auto-Registration and TAPS, page 2-10

•Adding Phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration, page 2-11

•Adding Phones with BAT, page 2-11

Adding Phones with Auto-Registration and TAPS

You can add phones with auto-registration and TAPS, the Tool for Auto-Registered Phones Support, without first gathering MAC addresses from phones.

TAPS works with the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT) to update a batch of phones that were already added to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager database with dummy MAC addresses. Use TAPS to update MAC addresses and download pre-defined configurations for phones.

Note We recommend that 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 Adding Phones with BAT, page 2-11.

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

Auto-registration must be enabled in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration (System > Cisco Unified CM) 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.

For more information about BAT and TAPS, see Cisco Unified Communications Manager Bulk Administration Guide.

Related Topics

•Adding Phones with Auto-Registration, page 2-9

•Adding Phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration, page 2-11

•Adding Phones with BAT, page 2-11

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