Bulk Administration Tool

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Bulk Administration Tool

• BAT Installation and Configuration
• By
• Prof. Yousif _at_
• Valencia Community College

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Installing BAT
Applications? Install Plug-in ? Cisco Bulk
Administration Tool
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Download the application to the CallMangers Hard
Drive
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Starting BAT
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BAT Administration Page
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Creating a New Template

• Configure ? Template ? Phone
• From the Phone Template Configuration screen
  click Add a new phone template
• Configure the above parameters

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Remember to Add the two lines

• Scroll to the bottom and click on line 1, then
  click on Insert and close.
• Repeat for line 2

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Working with BAT Spread Sheet
From the Call manager Hard Drive go
to C/ciscowebs/BAT/EcelTemplate Copy the bat.xl
file to your desktop
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Change the Security Level to Medium
Security must be set to medium for macros to run
Before you open the Excel template launch MS
Excel and select Tools ? Macro ? Security and set
the security level to Medium. Must close and
reopen Excel.
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BAT Fields
Devices that can register with BAT
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Configuring BAT

• Set the number of phone lines to 2, and the
  number of speed dials to 4
• Enter the MAC address of the Phone(s)
• Enter the number for Directory Number 1 and 2
• Configure the Display for the two lines
• Configure the Description as BAT Phone

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Export the Excel Template to BAT Format

• Click on Export to BAT Format (CSV-txt)
• Save the file to your hard drive using the name
  BAT_ExcelFiles
• Copy the file to the following directory on the
  CallManager C/batfiles/phones/insert

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Deleting PhonesBefore Using BAT Registration

• You cannot register a phone using BAT if it has
  already been registered (Using Auto-Registration
  for example)
• From the CallManger Adminstration select Devices
  ? Phones then click on the Find button
• Check all the phones that you want to delete then
  click on the delete button

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Erasing The EPhone Config (might be needed)
On your phone press the Settings button, Select
Network Configuration (3) then select Erase
Configuration (33) then select Save
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Importing the Database

• From BAT Administration click configure ? Phones
• Follow the above configuration

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Verify BAT Registration
From Devices Select Phones then click on the Find
button
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Verify BAT Registration
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LAB

• BAT Installation and Configuration
• Changing Phone registration from Auto to BAT