IP Phone provisioning doubts: Self-Prov, TAPS, BULK

[Eduardo Leon Dominguez]

Dear guys,

In a few weeks we'll need provisioning thousands ip phones in a new CUCM 11.5 cluster. Some sites with diferent call permissions per site, different device pools, voicemail profiles, External Phone Number Masks, etc.....

I think the best way is use TAPS becouse I can create all phones/lines/users with the final configuration like BATFFFFFFFFFF before deploy the phones,but in this case we haven't got UCCX for that. I'm thinking use the CUCM Self-Provisioning but I encounter doubts. I see the feature usefull to deploy phones with the same configuration (css,device pools,voicemail profile,...) but not when I need deploy hundreds of phones with different properties.

The final way is configure the phones manually with BULK (BAT file) taking all the MAC Address...... horror.

What is the best/quick way for deploy a lot of ip phones with differents properties in the last CUCM versions? Anyone with experience in large deployments using Self-Prov for know the feedback?

Thanks so much!

[Jaime Valencia · Accepted solution]

You're correct, self-provisiong will provide the same settings to all devices, you would need to change the configuration for every site as required, before calling the IVR.

Your options would be either do it all via BAT, or use self-provisioning to provide you with a baseline configuration on all devices, and then update as required with BAT.

[Eduardo Leon Dominguez · Accepted solution]

Thanks so much Jaime, I'll go with TAPS cause I think Its better for large deployments with different IP Phone preferences....