User guide

CHAPTER 6
Phone insertions
This chapter provides information to add phones, Cisco VGC Phones, CTI ports, or H.323 clients into the
Cisco Unified Communications Manager database.
You must have a Cisco Unified Communications Manager Bulk Administration (BAT) phone template for
the devices that you are adding, as well as a data file in comma separated value (CSV) format that contains
the unique details for the phones or other IP telephony devices. You can choose the target and method of
the data file upload. Phone records must be validated before insertion.
• Insert phones in to Cisco Unified Communications Manager, page 113
• Topics related to inserting phones, page 115
Insert phones in to Cisco Unified Communications Manager
When you insert phone records into the Cisco Unified Communications Manager database, you define the
target CSV data file and how the phone records get inserted. Select any combination of the listed actions to
overwrite the existing phone records, or you can choose to insert the records during upload:
• Delete all existing Speed Dials before adding new Speed Dials
• Delete all existing BLF Speed Dials before adding new BLF Speed Dials
• Delete all existing BLF Directed Call Parks before adding new BLF Directed Call Parks
• Delete all existing Subscribed Services before adding new Services.
Phone records must be validated before insertion.Note
You can use the dummy MAC address option. When adding CTI ports, this option gives a unique device
name to each CTI port in the form of dummy MAC addresses that you can manually update later using the
Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration or the Unified CM Auto-Register phone Tool. Do
not use the dummy MAC address option for H.323 clients, VGC phones, or VGC virtual phones.
The dummy MAC address option automatically generates dummy MAC addresses in the following format:
XXXXXXXXXXXX
where X represents any 12-character, hexadecimal (0-9 and A-F) number.
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