Introduction to Phone-Based Registration (PBR)

Overview

This topic provides an introduction for the installation, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting procedures for VOSS Automate’s Phone-Based Registration (PBR) feature.

PBR allows an administrator to pre-provision Cisco phones for UC subscribers with rich and detailed configuration without requiring advance knowledge of the phone MAC address.

Given a pre-configured phone, PBR allows an end-user to access an auto-registered phone to register their pre-configured device via the Phone Services menus.

The flowchart provides a high-level workflow for PBR, including these steps:

• Install PBR (See Install Phone-based Registration (PBR) Web Service)

• Set up PBR (See PBR Setup - Configure CUCM for AutoRegistration and Phone Based Registration)

• Add PBR Config records (one per customer) (See Add PBR Config Records)

• Register a phone (on the device) (See Register a Phone for Phone Based Provisioning)

Related Topics

• Install Phone-based Registration (PBR) Web Service

• PBR Setup - Configure CUCM for AutoRegistration and Phone Based Registration

• Add PBR Config Records

• Register a Phone for Phone Based Provisioning

• Add Phone-Based Registration Menus and Access Profile

• Create Restricted API Role and Admin User

PBR Architecture

VOSS Automate’s Phone-Based Registration (PBR) feature is implemented as a Cisco Unified IP Phone Services Application.

This operates a web service on the VOSS Automate platform, for example, when installed on a multi-node cluster on all unified nodes, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 1: PBR network connectivity