.. _intro-PBR:

Introduction to Phone-Based Registration (PBR)
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.. index:: Feature;Phone Based Registration

.. _19.1.1|VOSS-477:



Overview 
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.. index:: Flowchart;Phone Based Registration 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 :ref:`install-web-service-PBR`)
* Set up PBR (See :ref:`setup-CUCM-for-PBR`)
* Add PBR Config records (one per customer) (See :ref:`configure-PBR-add-on`)
* Register a phone (on the device) (See :ref:`high-level-overview-PBR`)


.. include:: pbr-overview-workflow.uml



.. rubric:: Related Topics

* :ref:`install-web-service-PBR`
* :ref:`setup-CUCM-for-PBR`
* :ref:`configure-PBR-add-on`
* :ref:`high-level-overview-PBR`
* :ref:`expose-access-PBR`
* :ref:`create-restricted-API-role-user`



.. _arch-PBR:

PBR Architecture 
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VOSS Automate's Phone-Based Registration (PBR) feature is implemented as a 
`Cisco Unified IP Phone Services Application <https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cuipph/all_models/xsi/9-1-1/CUIP_BK_P82B3B16_00_phones-services-application-development-notes/CUIP_BK_P82B3B16_00_phones-services-application-development-notes_chapter_01001.html>`_.

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: 

|PBR-Network.png|

Figure 1: PBR network connectivity





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