Adding Phones With Autoregistration - Cisco 6901 Administration Manual

Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Database
These sections describe the methods:
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Table 2-4
Communications Manager database.
Table 2-4
Method
Autoregistration
Autoregistration with
TAPS
Using the Cisco Unified
Communications
Manager Administration
Using BAT

Adding Phones with autoregistration

By enabling autoregistration before you begin installing phones, you can:
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Cisco recommends you use autoregistration to add less than 100 phones to your network. To add more
Note
than 100 phones to your network, use the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT). See the
Using the BAT Phone Template" section on page
Cisco Unified IP Phone 6901 and 6911 Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.6 (SCCP and SIP)
2-8
Adding Phones with autoregistration, page 2-8
Adding Phones with autoregistration and TAPS, page 2-9
Adding Phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, page 2-10
Adding Phones Using the BAT Phone Template, page 2-10
provides an overview of these methods for adding phones to the Cisco Unified
Methods for Adding Phones to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Database
Requires MAC
Address?
No
No
Yes
Yes
Add phones without first gathering MAC addresses from the phones.
Automatically add a Cisco Unified IP Phone to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager
database when you physically connect the phone to your IP telephony network. During
autoregistration, Cisco Unified Communications Manager assigns the next available sequential
directory number to the phone.
Quickly enter phones into the Cisco Unified Communications Manager database and modify any
settings, such as the directory numbers, from Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
Move auto-registered phones to new locations and assign them to different device pools without
affecting their directory numbers.
Chapter 2 Preparing to Install the Cisco Unified IP Phone on Your Network
Notes
Results in automatic assignment of directory
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numbers
• Not available when security or encryption is enabled.
Requires autoregistration 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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