Extension Mobility Overview
Cisco Extension Mobility allows users to temporarily access their phone settings, such as line appearances, services, and speed dials, from other phones within your system. If you have a single phone that will be used by multiple workers, for example, you can configure extension mobility so that individual users can log in to the phone and access their settings without affecting settings on other user accounts.
After a user logs in using extension mobility and if the extension mobility profile is already associated to the application user, then CTI application sends device-related information. CTI application can control a device the user is logged into (using that extension mobility profile) without having to have direct control of the device. Therefore, the recording with the device profile association to the application user should work though they have not associated the device directly.
On authentication, if the login profile matches the login device (that is, the user has a user device profile that is configured for a Cisco IP Phone 7960 and logs in to a Cisco IP Phone 7960), Extension Mobility behaves the same way as it does with the older Unified CM versions:
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The phone automatically reconfigures with the individual user device profile information.
If the user has one user device profile, then the system uses this profile. If the user has more than one user device profile, the user can choose the user device profile that will be used from a list.
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The user can access all the services that the user configured on the device profile.
If that same user logs into a Cisco IP Phone model where the user does not have a configured user device profile, the login profile will not match the login device on authentication. In this scenario, the system loads the device profile default for that phone model onto the phone, and Extension Mobility works as described here:
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The system copies all device-independent configuration (that is, user hold audio source, user locale, userid, speeddials, and directory number configuration except for the setting "line setting for this device") from the user device profile to the login device.
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The system uses the device profile default for that phone model for phone template and softkey template configuration and, if the phone can support addon modules, for the addon module.
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If the phone model supports Cisco IP Phone Services and they are configured, the system copies the services from the user device profile.
If the user device profile does not have Cisco IP Phone Services configured, the system uses the Cisco IP Phone Services that are configured in the device profile default for the login device that is accessed during login. If parameters exist for the subscriber service, the system copies the parameters from the device profile default and the parameters may not reflect the correct information.
For example, the following scenarios occur when a user who has a user device profile that is configured for Cisco IP Phone Model 7960 logs in to a Cisco IP Phone Model 7905, and the device default profile is loaded on the phone.
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The user can access the user's hold audio source, user locale, userid, speed-dials, and directory number configuration. The user cannot access his phone line setting; the system configured the phone line setting from the device profile default that is configured for the Cisco IP Phone 7905.
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The user can access the phone template and the softkey template of the Cisco IP Phone 7905.
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The user cannot access an addon module because Cisco IP Phone 7905 does not support it.
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The user can access Cisco IP Phone Services if they are configured for the Cisco IP Phone 7905, but the parameters from the subscriber services reflect the device profile default, not the parameters that the user chose on the User Options window.
Users log out of Cisco Extension Mobility by pressing the Services button and choosing logout. If users do not log out themselves, the system will automatically log them out if you configured the Service Parameters to do so, or the next user of the phone can log out the previous user. After logout, Unified CM sends the logout profile to the phone and restarts the phone.