Cisco Bulk Administration Tool
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Adding, updating, and deleting phones, users, and gateway ports are important functions in the day-to-day activities of a Cisco CallManager administrator. When you use Cisco CallManager Administration, each database transaction requires an individual manual operation. Manually adding and configuring large numbers of these entities can be time consuming and tedious. The Cisco Bulk Administration Tool (BAT) automates the process and achieves faster add, update, and delete operations so that the system administrator can focus on more business- and network-critical activities.
As a supplement to BAT, you can further ease the load of adding new phones to the network through the Tool for Auto-Registered Phones Support (TAPS). You can use TAPS in conjunction with BAT to update MAC addresses and download a predefined configuration for new phones after a user has walked through an automated process. This chapter discusses the design and implementation of both BAT and TAPS.