User guide

CHAPTER 28
Phone and user insertions
This chapter provides information to add a group of phones and users to the Cisco Unified Communications
Manager database and directory.
• Insert phones with users into Cisco Unified Communications Manager, page 243
• Topics related to phone and user insertion, page 244
Insert phones with users into Cisco Unified Communications Manager
You can add a group of phones and users to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager database and
directory.
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.
Before You Begin
1
Create a comma separated values (CSV) data file to define individual values for each phones with users
that you want to insert. You can create the CSV data file using the BAT spreadsheet (BAT.xlt) to add
phones with users, or create a custom text file in CSV format to add phones with users combinations.
2
Associate file format with the CSV data file.
3
Validate phones with users records.
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