[cisco-voip] Advice / Suggestions on large extension move?

[Craig Staffin]

I would honestly do a translation on the gateway.  IMHO it is much easier to
do translations on the gateway and this then allows you the simplicity of
simply taking out 10 lines of a config and rebooting rather then going
through the GUI and deleting 10 different translation patterns.

Craig

On 3/15/07, Dane <d4rkf1ber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We recently acquired a bunch of smaller offices and brough them into
> our CallManager system.  We allowed them to keep their POTS lines and
> their DID numbers at the times in each of the different offices.  This
> created a big cluster within our cluster.  :-)  As we now had
> extensions all over the place rather then within a nice simple range.
>
> Anyway, I have finally recieved permission to begin cleaning this all
> up.  First order of business was securing a new DID range in which I
> will place them all in allowing for a simple and consistent flow or
> group of numbers if you will.
>
> I am not trying to figure out the best way to assign the new DID's and
> therefore new four digit extensions to these offices.  Each office is
> group in CallManager as a location.  I hope to do one location at a
> time.
>
> The biggest issue is I have to maintain a callforward or phantom
> forward of their old extension for three months.  So basically I
> configure someones phone with the new extension then have their old
> extension forward to the new one.
>
> I ask for advice and suggestions to see how others might handle this,
> as this list contains some very knowledgeable indiviuals with some
> great ideas regarding all things Cisco VoIP related and it amazes me
> some of the suggestions and advice given here for things.  I often see
> wonderful information on how to accomplish something, or even simply a
> better way of doing the same thing some times.
>
> I know their are ways to export all the phones say in a location to a
> file and then manipulate the file and then import it, but I am not
> sure how or if that is the ideal thing.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciate, trying to
> automate or simplify the process as much as possible.
>
> Regards,
> Dane
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