Autoregistration Phone Addition - Cisco 3905 Administration Manual

Cisco Unified IP Phone and Your Network
Table 5: Methods for Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Database
Method
Auto-registration
Auto-registration with
TAPS
Using the Cisco Unified
Communications Manager
Administration
Using BAT

Autoregistration Phone Addition

By enabling auto-registration 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 Communications Manager database
• Quickly enter phones into the Cisco Unified Communications Manager database and modify any settings,
• Move auto-registered phones to new locations and assign them to different device pools without affecting
Note Cisco recommends you use auto-registration to add less than 100 phones to your network. To add more
than 100 phones to your network, use the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT).
Auto-registration is disabled by default. In some cases, you might not want to use auto-registration; for
example, if you want to assign a specific directory number to the phone. For information about enabling
auto-registration, see the "Enabling Auto-Registration" section in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Administration Guide.
Requires MAC
Address?
No
No
Yes
Yes
when you physically connect the phone to your IP telephony network. During auto-registration,
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 SIP Phone 3905 Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.6 (SIP)
Autoregistration Phone Addition
Notes
• Results in automatic assignment of directory numbers
• Not available when security or encryption is enabled.
Requires auto-registration and the Bulk Administration Tool
(BAT); updates information in the Cisco Unified IP Phone
and in Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Administration
Requires phones to be added individually
Allows for simultaneous registration of multiple phones
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