Before You Begin
VoIP Network
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Related Topics
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Methods for Adding Phones to Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Before installing the wireless IP phone, you must choose a method for adding phones to the
Cisco Unified Communications Manager database. Some methods require entering the MAC address of
the phone.
Table 3-1
Method
Auto-registration
Auto-registration with the Tool for
Auto-Registered Phones Support
(TAPS)
BAT
Cisco Unified Communications
Manager Administration only
The following sections describe methods for adding phones:
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Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7921G Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Release 7.0
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Cisco routers and gateways configured for VoIP
One of these call–control products installed and configured:
Cisco Unified Communications Manager Release 4.3, 5.1, 6.0(1), 6.1(1), or 7.0(1)
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Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express 4.1 or later
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IP network configured to support DHCP or manual assignment of IP address, gateway, and subnet
mask
Features Supported on the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7921G, page 1-4
Understanding the Wireless LAN, page 2-1
Methods for Adding Phones to Cisco Unified Communications Manager, page 3-2
Installing the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7921G, page 3-7
Powering On the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7921G, page 3-16
Table 3-1
provides an overview of these methods.
Methods for Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Database
Adding Phones with Auto-Registration, page 3-3
Adding Phones with Auto-Registration and TAPS, page 3-3
Adding Phones with BAT, page 3-4
Adding Phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration, page 3-4
Chapter 3
Setting Up the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7921G
Requires MAC
Address?
Notes
No
Results in automatic assignment of
directory numbers
No
Requires auto-registration and Bulk
Administration Tool (BAT); updates
information in the Cisco Unified IP
Phone and in Cisco
Unified Communications Manager
Administration
Yes
Allows for simultaneous registration of
multiple phones
Yes
Requires phones to be added
individually
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