Creating System Contacts

Bulk Administration Manager allows you to create Cisco Unity Connection system contacts by using either a wizard or a command line interface to import information from a CSV file.

Refer to the "Constructing the Input CSV Files" section as you create the CSV file. Then, see the applicable section, depending on the method you plan to use to create users without voice mail:

Using the Wizard to Create System Contacts

To Use the Wizard to Create Cisco Unity Connection System Contacts
  1. If you do not already have Tools Depot open, click the Cisco Unity Tools Depot icon on the desktop, and Expand Administration Tools.
  2. Double-click Bulk Administration Manager.
  3. On the Cisco Unity Connection Bulk Administration Manager Welcome page, click Next.
  4. On the Select Operation screen, click Create.
  5. Click System Contacts, and click Next.
  6. On the Select Files screen, in the CSV File field, enter the full path to the CSV input file or browse to the applicable file.
  7. In the Failed Objects File field, enter the full path to the failed objects report file or browse to the applicable file.
  8. Click Next. Bulk Administration Manager begins creating contacts and displays the summary page when the operation has completed.
    9. If the operation resulted in any failures, you can immediately inspect the failed objects report file by clicking View Failed Objects File. For information about correcting errors, see "Correcting Errors with Creating, Updating, or Deleting Objects by Using the Failed Objects File".
  9. Click Finish.

Using the Command Line Interface to Create System Contacts

The command to create Cisco Unity Connection system contacts by using information from a CSV file is

BulkAdministrationManager /Create /SystemContacts /Input:"<Full path to the CSV input file>" /Failed:"<Full path to the failed objects report file>"

All of the arguments are required.

When the following command is run, Bulk Administration Manager reads information from the file createsystemcontacts.csv to create system contacts, and reports failures to the file createsystemcontacts.failed.csv.

BulkAdministrationManager /create /systemcontacts /input:"c:\program files\csv\createsystemcontacts.csv" /failed:"c:\program files\csv\createsystemcontacts.failed.csv"

 

Note that the command line arguments are not case sensitive, and that the order of the options is unimportant.

For information about correcting errors, see the "Correcting Errors with Creating, Updating, or Deleting Objects by Using the Failed Objects File" section on page 1-33.