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Bulk endpoint additions with BAT

Bulk endpoint additions with BAT

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to take a look at a third way of adding IP phones to our Communications Manager server. Just to review what we've talked about thus far, we've seen two approaches. One approach was to manually add a phone. We will go in and say we want to add this type of phone. Here is its Mac address. Here is its directory number on this line. Here is it's calling search space and all those different parameters. And that was a great way of adding an individual phone. However, if we have lots of phones to add, having to go in and individually insert Mac addresses, that could be a bit tedious. So we saw a time saver and that was in the form of auto registration. We could have a range of directory numbers that would be handed out to phones that were auto registering with Communications Manager, much like a PC would get an IP address from a pool of IP addresses. Here, the IP phone was getting a…

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