Cisco Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 8.5 White Paper
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After a phone with a dummy MAC address is registered, the subscriber needs to be synchronized in order to get
the new MAC address. Alternatively, subsequent Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager subscriber and domain sync
will bring the system to the latest state.
For batch provisioning, if the product attribute “use DummyAddress” with the value “Y” is provided (value “N”
instructs Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager to use existing logic), Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager will ignore
the MAC address in the batch file (if presented) and generate a dummy address.
In the subscriber record, the phones configured for TAPS won’t be showing any special attribute to indicate that.
The only way the user will be able to find that a phone is configured for TAPS is by looking at the device name
string next to the phone in the subscriber record, which will show a different prefix (BAT instead of SEP). This will
happen only until the TAPS phone logs in to the TAPS application and gets the real address and a subsequent
subscriber and domain sync has been done.
How to Manage Phones Without Associated Users
UPM 2.0 supports management and provisioning of phones that are not assigned to users. When users need to
order products for some lobby or conference room, they can log in as admin and add a user with the pseudo-
subscriber role and then use the Cisco UPM order system to order phone, line, voicemail, email, and other
products for this user. To manage existing phones in Communications Manager that don’t have any associated
users, users can export orphan phones of one domain or of some call processors in a domain in a change owner
batch file (Figure 25 and Table 12). Users could edit the file if needed and upload back into UPM through batch
provisioning. Users must run a domain sync to get the orphan phones and dependant products as line, voicemail,
and email created in the customer record.
Figure 25. Domain - Export Phone Without Associated Users