The 2017 registration technote states the default Expires value in the phone's REGISTER to the primary Unified CM is 120 seconds, and that keep-alive REGISTERs to secondary servers carry Expires 0.

Checked 2026-09-24

Vendor
Cisco
Product
Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Subsystem
SIP registration
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
as written 2017; not re-validated for Release 15
Checked
2026-09-24

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). Cisco IP phone registration and TFTP and ITL and CTL: source note cisco-phone-registration-sip-register-expires. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cisco-phone-registration-sip-register-expires

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-cisco-phone-registration-sip-register-expires,
  title  = {Cisco IP phone registration and TFTP and ITL and CTL: source note cisco-phone-registration-sip-register-expires},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cisco-phone-registration-sip-register-expires},
  note   = {Source note cisco-phone-registration-sip-register-expires, checked 2026-09-24}
}

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