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Chapter 2 Preparing to Install the Cisco Unified IP Phone on Your Network
Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified CallManager Database
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Table 2-5 provides an overview of these methods for adding phones 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.
Table 2-5 Methods for Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified CallManager
Database
Method
Requires MAC
Address?
Notes
Auto-registration No Provides no control over directory
number assignment to phone.
Not available when security or
encryption is enabled.
Auto-registration
with TAPS No Requires auto-registration and the Bulk
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
Unified
CallManager
Administration Yes Must add phones individually.
Using BAT Yes Can add groups of same model of phone.
Can schedule when phones are added to
the Cisco Unified CallManager
database.