Configure the Phone Based Registration Add-On

Phone Based Registration Feature Reference

The Phone Based Registration Add-On supports a number of configuration parameters that manage how the service operates in a specific provider or customer environment. This configuration is implemented using the Services > Phone Based Registration > PBR Config menu item.

  • A single PBR config record MUST be created globally at provider level.
  • A PBR config record must be created for each customer that will utilize the phone based registration add-on.
  • The config at the provider level is there to enable the PBR web service to make initial connection to VOSS-4-UC API.
  • The config at customer level defines the specific connection parameters for that customer and eventually will allow per customer VOSS-4-UC user to be used.

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Configuration is on VOSS-4-UC user interface:

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Figure 5: Sample PBR Config record

When configuring the PBR service for a specific hierarchy the following considerations are important:

  1. VOSS recommends that PBR configuration should only allow the replacement of phones with fake MACs with device name prefix starting with BAT.

    This ensures that it is never possible for a user to replace a phone that is in active use.

    Select the BAT Prefix Required check box.

  2. Is the use of PBR Device records required in this environment?

    1. The PBR device record provides a mechanism for administrators to explicitly specify that a device is eligible for phone based registration.

      Select the PBR Device Record Required check box if this is desired.

    2. The PBR device record allows the administrator to specify a PIN that should be used when performing phone based registration for a specific phone or for all phones at a site.

      Select the Pin Required check box.

    3. The PBR device record can be used to guarantee that the correct device is replaced in environments where Directory numbers are not unique within a Unified CM cluster, e.g. multiple Directory numbers are configured with same DN but located in different partitions.

      In this case, clear the UseSiteWidePIN check box.

Phone Based Registration Portal Port:

  • This should be port 443 for HTTPS based connectivity
  • This can be port 80 for HTTP based connectivity

Phone Based Registration Portal Address:

  • When using HTTPS, this is the IP address or hostname of a VOSS-4-UC proxy node in a cluster.
  • When using HTTP, this is the IP address or hostname of the primary VOSS-4-UC unified node in a cluster.
  • This address and the port below must be accessible from the phone network.

Phone Based Registration Portal API User Credentials:

  • Phone Based Registration Portal API User:

    • This is the user that was configured in the previous section of documentation. Please specify the email address.

  • Phone Based Registration Portal API Password:

    • The password of the PBR API user:

    Note that this information is required for both the Provider level config and the config for any customers.

Phone Based Registration Service Hierarchy:

  • If the config record is defined at Provider level, then this should be the Provider hierarchy, e.g. sys.hcs.CC-P.
  • If the config record is defined at the customer level, then this should be the customer hierarchy, e.g. sys.hcs.CC-P.FlexCorp)

CUCM IP:

  • This should be the IP address of Unified CM that is accessible to VOSS-4-UC using HTTPS SOAP requests.

By default, VOSS-4-UC requires a PBR device record per device, but in some cases, it could be sufficient to use a single pin per site:

  1. In this case, select the UseSiteWidePIN check box.
  2. This provides limited security to ensure that a PIN is still required to register a phone, but reduces the operational burden by eliminating the need to provision a PBR device record for each phone.

Additional options:

  • Auto Provision PBR device record. This feature is experimental and should not be selected.
  • Use default PIN. This feature is experimental and should not be selected.
  • BAT devicename format: This should be left to default.

Important

After saving the above configuration in VOSS-4-UC, you must restart the services by running the following CLI command on the primary node:

cluster run app start phone-based-registration