Autoregistration Ip Phone Addition - Cisco 8831 Administration Manual

Autoregistration IP Phone addition

Method
Using BAT
Autoregistration IP Phone addition
If you enable autoregistration before you begin installing conference phones, you can:
• Automatically add a conference phone to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager database when
• Add conference phones without first gathering MAC addresses from the conference phones.
• Quickly enter conference phones into the Cisco Unified Communications Manager database and modify
• Move autoregistered conference phones to new locations and assign them to different device pools
Cisco recommends that you use autoregistration to add fewer than 100 conference phones to your network.
Note
To add more than 100 conference phones to your network, use the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT).
Autoregistration is disabled by default. In some cases, you might not want to use autoregistration; for example,
if you want to assign a specific directory number to the phone, or if you plan to implement authentication or
encryption. For information about enabling autoregistration, see "Enable Autoregistration" section in the Cisco
Unified Communications Manager Administration Guide. For information about authentication or encryption
as it pertains to autoregistration, refer to Cisco Unified Communications Manager Security Guide.
When you configure the client for mixed mode through the Cisco CTL client, autoregistration is
Note
automatically disabled. When you configure the cluster for nonsecure mode through the Cisco CTL client,
autoregistation is automatically enabled.
Related Topics
Autoregistration and TAPS IP Phone addition, on page 43
Cisco Unified Communications Manager administration IP Phone addition, on page 43
BAT IP Phone addition, on page 44
Cisco Unified IP Conference Phone 8831 Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager
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Requires MAC Address?
Yes
you physically connect the conference phone to your IP telephony network. During autoregistration,
Cisco Unified Communications Manager assigns the next available sequential directory number to the
conference phone.
any settings, such as the directory numbers, from Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
without affecting their directory numbers.
Cisco Unified IP Phones and telephony networks
Notes
Allows for the simultaneous registration of multiple
conference phones of the same model.
Allows you to schedule when conference phones are
added to Cisco Unified Communications Manager.