Information About Templates
Phone Templates
An ephone or voice-register template is a set of features that can be applied to one or more individual phones using a single command.
Ephone templates were introduced in Cisco CME 3.2 to manipulate softkey display and order on IP phones.
In Cisco Unified CME 4.0, ephone templates were significantly enhanced to include a number of additional phone features. Templates allow you to uniformly and easily implement the features you select for a set of phones. A maximum of 20 ephone templates can be created in a Cisco Unified CME system, although an ephone can have only one template applied to it at a time.
In Cisco Unified CME 4.3 and later versions, an ephone template cannot be applied to a particular phone unless its configuration file includes its Mac address. If you attempt to apply a template to a phone for which the MAC address in not configured, a message appears.
If you use an ephone template to apply a command to a phone and you also use the same command in ephone configuration mode for the same phone, the value set in ephone configuration mode has priority.
Voice-register templates were introduced in Cisco CME 3.4 to enable sets of features to be applied to individual SIP Phones that are connected directly in Cisco Unified CME. Typically, features to be enabled by using a voice-register template are not configurable in other configuration modes. A maximum 10 voice-register templates can be defined in Cisco Unified CME, although a phone can have only one template applied to it at a time.
Type ? in ephone-template or voice-register-template configuration mode to display a list of features that can be implemented by using templates.
For configuration information, see Create an Ephone Template.
Ephone-dn Templates
Ephone-dn templates allow you to apply a standard set of features to ephone-dns. A maximum of 15 ephone-dn templates can be created in a Cisco Unified CME system, although an ephone-dn can have only one template applied to it at a time.
If you use an ephone-dn template to apply a command to an ephone-dn and you also use the same command in ephone-dn configuration mode for the same ephone-dn, the value that you set in ephone-dn configuration mode has priority.
Type ? in ephone-dn-template configuration mode to display a list of features that can be implemented by using templates.
For configuration information, see Create an Ephone-dn Template.