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Adding Phones with Auto-Registration
By enabling auto-registration before you begin installing phones, you can:
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Add phones without first gathering MAC addresses from the phones.
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Automatically add a Cisco Unified IP Phone to the Cisco Unified
Communications Manager database when you physically connect the phone
to your IP telephony network. During auto-registration, Cisco Unified
Communications Manager assigns the next available sequential directory
number to the phone.
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Quickly enter phones into the Cisco Unified Communications Manager
database and modify any settings, such as the directory numbers, from
Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
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Move auto-registered phones to new locations and assign them to different
device pools without affecting their directory numbers.
Note
Cisco recommends that you use auto-registration to add fewer 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
Auto-registration is disabled by default. 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 Communications Manager Security Guide. For
information about enabling auto-registration, refer to “Enabling
Auto-Registration” in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration
Guide.
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.
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