Autoregistration Phone Addition - Cisco 7975G Software Manual

Autoregistration Phone Addition

Method
Autoregistration with
TAPS
Use Cisco Unified
Communications
Manager Administration
Use BAT
Autoregistration Phone Addition
If you enable autoregistration before you begin installing phones, you can:
• Add phones without first gathering MAC addresses from the phones.
• Automatically add a Cisco Unified IP Phone to the Cisco Unified CM database when you physically
• Quickly enter phones into the Cisco Unified Communications Manager database and modify any settings,
• Move autoregistered phones to new locations and assign them to different device pools without affecting
Cisco recommends that you use autoregistration to add fewer than 100 phones to your network. To add
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more than 100 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. For information about enabling autoregistration,
see "Enable autoregistration" section in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration Guide.
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 nonsecure mode through the Cisco CTL client,
autoregistration is automatically enabled.
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Requires MAC address?
No
Yes
Yes
connect the phone to your IP telephony network. During autoregistration, Cisco Unified Communications
Manager assigns the next available sequential directory number to the phone.
such as the directory numbers, from Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
their directory numbers.
Cisco Unified IP Phones and Telephony Networks
Notes
Requires autoregistration and the Bulk
Administration Tool (BAT); updates the
Cisco Unified Communications Manager
database with the MAC address and DNs
for the device when user calls TAPS from
the phone.
Requires phones to be added individually.
Can add groups of same model of phone.
Can schedule when phones are added to
the Cisco Unified Communications
Manager database.