Adding Phones With Bat - Cisco 7940 - IP Phone VoIP Administration Manual

Chapter 2 Preparing to Install the Cisco Unified IP Phone on Your Network
Adding Phones with Auto-Registration and TAPS
TAPS, the Tool for Auto-Registered Phones Support, 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. You use TAPS to update MAC addresses and download
pre-defined configurations for phones.
You can add phones with auto-registration and TAPS without first gathering MAC addresses from
phones.
You should use auto-registration and TAPS to add less than 100 phones to your network. To add more
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than 100 phones to your network, use the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT). See the
BAT" section on page
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 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.
Cisco Unified Communications Manager automatically disables auto-registration if you configure the
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cluster-wide security mode for authentication and encryption through the Cisco CTL client.
Refer to Cisco Unified Communications Manager Bulk Administration Guide for detailed instructions
about BAT and about TAPS.
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Adding Phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration
You can add phones individually to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager database using
Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration. To do so, you first need to obtain the MAC
address for each phone.
For information about determining a MAC address, see the
Unified IP Phone" section on page
After you have collected MAC addresses, in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration,
choose Device > Phone and click Add New to begin.
For complete instructions and conceptual information about Cisco Unified Communications Manager,
refer to Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration Guide and to Cisco
Unified Communications Manager System Guide.
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