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Cisco Bulk Administration Tool (BAT)

I Call this : The Quick and dirty way

in earlier post i explain the Latest CUCM 10 feature SELF-Provisioning  were End user should input His Self-Service user ID to Provision a phone.
Today  I guide you through the most powerful tool of Cisco Unified Communications Manager mainly use to insert users, phones …etc.
BAT is an Old Feature for CUCM and usually use during big phone deployments.
please refer to Cisco Web for a complete guide on how to use bat.
i am here only to explain to you how to add Phones using BAT.

First Go to Bulk Administration – Upload/Download Files – Select bat.xlt and press Download Selected

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Open the bat.xlt and Excel sheet will open then Choose to create File Format2

Adjust the File as you wish
MAC Address, Description, Directory Number, Line Description, Alerting Name …etc Then press bellow Magic Button (Create)3

it will ask you to overwrite the Excel file just press Yes4

Then Fill the Detail you need and Choose Export to BAT Format
and Save the File in your Desktop 5

Successfully Saved
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Now Back to CUCM Bulk Administration – Upload/Download Files – and this time choose to Upload a new File
Choose  your BAT that you saved in Desktop and Select the transaction Type then Save.
it will be uploaded7

Now go to Bulk Administration – Phones – Phone Template -Create New one for the Specific Phone Model
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Configure your Device pool, Phone button template …etc9

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Then Configure the Directory line, Partition and Calling Search Space11
After That we need to Validate our BAT File with the Phone Template
go to Bulk Administration – Phones – Validate Phones
Select the  BAT and Phone Template
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After that to check everything gone correctly go to Bulk Administration – Job Scheduler
it successfully Validate13
you can also check the text Report14
Now time to insert the Phones
go to Bulk Administration – Phones – Insert phones
Choose the BAT File and Phone template & Run Immediately15

Again you need to check everything gone Smoothly so
go to Bulk Administration – Job Scheduler
it Successfully Passed16
Also Check the Text To for any Error
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Here is the Best part when i see My Phone Registered Just Fine ;D18

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