User guide

You can use BAT to work with the following types of devices and records:

• Add, update, and delete Cisco Unified IP Phones including voice gateway (VG) phones, computer

telephony interface (CTI) ports, and H.323 clients, and migrate phones from Skinny Client Control

Protocol (SCCP) to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

• Add, update, and delete users

• Add, update, and delete User Device Profiles

• Add, update, and delete Cisco Unified Communications Manager Assistant and Managers associations

• Add, update, and delete ports on a Cisco Catalyst 6000 FXS Analog Interface Module

• Add or delete Cisco VG200 and Cisco VG224 analog gateways and ports

• Add or delete Forced Authorization Codes

• Add or delete Client Matter Codes

• Add or delete Call Pickup Groups

• Update or export CUP/CUPC users

• Populate or depopulate the Region Matrix

• Insert, delete, or export the Access List

• Export or import configuration

• Insert, delete, or export Remote Destination and Remote Destination Profile

Cisco recommends that you limit the number of records when you perform a bulk transaction in Cisco

Unified Communications Manager Bulk Administration to a maximum of 12,000 records. This applies

when you insert, update, delete, or query any records using BAT.

Note

You can also work with these devices in combination with the user information. For example, when you add

CTI ports and users, BAT allows you to “Enable CTI Application Use.” This saves time when you are adding

users who have applications that require a CTI port, such as Cisco IP SoftPhone.

An optional component of BAT, the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Auto-Register Phone Tool,

further reduces the time and effort that is involved in administering a large system. When you need to add a

large block of new phones, you can use BAT to add the devices with dummy media access control (MAC)

addresses instead of entering each MAC address in the data input file. After the phones are installed, the phone

users or the administrator can call the Unified CM Auto-Register phone Tool directory number, follow the

voice prompts, and download the correct user device profiles for their phones.