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

[Dane]

Craig, no problem at all.  I appreciate any input.

In fact your comments have been helpful because it has made me think
more about things.

For instance you mention the possibility of leaving the second line on
the phone.

I am thinking about that as well.  The idea being that if I make their
primary line the new extension, then basically move their current line
to the second line on the phone I think the clean up process might
possibly be easier at the end of the 3 month period.

The thought being if all of these phones are grouped together
correctly and I know that the second line on all phones in the group
can be removed at a certain period of time it might be possible "not
sure how to be honest" to do a mass delete of the second line.

Now if I can figure out the best way to export and import phones.  I
think thats where SQL experts come in.  There has to be a way to
export a list of phones say by location and be able to change the
extension within a spread sheet maybe and then import the changes
back.  That is my quest now is to find out the method and the pro's
and con's for doing changes like that.

Thanks again.



On 3/15/07, Craig Staffin <craig at staffin.org> wrote:
> Dane,
>
> Sorry I looked into your request more I thought these were sites where you
> had to have the old DID numbers point to the new DID numbers.
>
> Since it is phone extension you are worried about the only realy way to do
> it would be to do a seperate partition with translation patterns to the new
> numbers.  Unfortionatly its probably going to be a one for one translation
> OR the other option is simply put the old number on each persons phone.
>
>
> Craig
>
> On 3/15/07, Dane <d4rkf1ber at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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> >
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>
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> Craig Staffin
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