Adding Phones With Autoregistration And Taps - Cisco 8961 Administration Manual

Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Database

Adding Phones with AutoRegistration and TAPS

You can add phones with autoregistration and TAPS, the Tool for AutoRegistered Phones Support,
without first gathering MAC addresses from phones.
TAPS 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. Use TAPS
to update MAC addresses and download pre-defined configurations for phones.
Cisco recommends you use autoregistration and TAPS to add less than 100 phones to your network. To
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add more than 100 phones to your network, use the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT). See the
Phones Using BAT Phone Template" section on page
To implement TAPS, you or the end-user dial a TAPS directory number and follow voice prompts. After
the process is complete, the phone contains the directory number and other settings, and the phone is
updated in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration with the correct MAC address.
Autoregistration must be enabled in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration (System >
Cisco Unified CM) for TAPS to function.
When you configure the cluster for mixed mode through the Cisco CTL client, autoregistration is
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automatically disabled. When you configure the cluster for non-secure mode through the Cisco CTL
client, autoregistration is not enabled automatically.
For more information, see the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Bulk Administration Guide.
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