Allow me to provide a little more details. What I have are remotely located stores with different departments. For the sake of this discussion, let's use bakery and groceries departments. If the bakery phone goes bad, sometimes the users will just grab a phone from groceries and replace the bakery phone with it and expects bakery to ring when someone calls. Here is what I was thinking:
1. Set a translation pattern for each dept with the dept's extension on it.
2. Set it to translate the first two digits based on the called number, which will be specific to a department. for example I would assign 1234 (12 for bakery), 1435 (14) for groceries. The last two digit will not change.
3. Setup auto registration to assign bakery 12xx numbers and groceries 14xx numbers.
My problem is 3. I would call manager know the difference when someone plugs in whether it's groceries or bakery. I was thinking of creating a different voice vlan for the two departments, and assign them to a different subnet.
My question to you guys is how do I make call manager recognize the different subnets and assign bakery phones 12 and grocery phones 14 numbers?
We don't have TAPS and the users don't want to touch the phone except to plug it in.
Maybe this will provide more clarity.
Thanks.
