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

[Dane]

Humm.. I must not be following you because I don't see how that would
work unless you were talking about translating one consecutive group
of numbers to another.  Like if I knew my existing range of numbers
fell between say 3000-3999 and the new one was 6000-6999 I think I
could see how one might translate something like that.  But not sure
if that is what you are referring to, and if it is I don't think it
works in my situation as I have numbers all over the place talking a
few hundred numbers in barely any consecutive order at all.

The good thing about the move to new extensions is it will clean up
this mess in callmanager and have two nice range of numbers rather
then numbers all over the place.  The bad thing is the amount of work
to do it if I can't find some possible alternative ways of doing it.

Appreciate the response and look forward to better understanding your
point if I missed it.



On 3/15/07, Craig Staffin <craig at staffin.org> wrote:
> 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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