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MONITORING PRESENCE STATUS 
Using VMPKs 
In our scenario, we will be using GRP2614 phone to illustrate the use of VMPKs to monitor another SIP 
entity’s Presence status. 
The recommendations on the GRP phone before proceeding to the presence watcher configuration on the 
VMPKs are as follow: 
  Have a GRP phone supporting presence feature  Refer to [SUPPORTED DEVICES]. 
  Have a registered SIP account on the same UCM6xxx as the monitored extension.   
The  presence  watcher  can  use  one  of  the  available  accounts  on  the  phone,  at  least  one  should  be 
registered as illustrated on the following screenshot: 
 
Figure 7 : Account Status 
Once  the  phone  is  having  a  registered  account,  we  can proceed  to  presence  watcher  configuration  on 
phone’s VMPK settings.   
Virtual Multi-Purpose Keys (VPK) configuration page is under phone’s web UISettingsProgrammable 
KeysVirtual Multi-Purpose Keys tab. By default, all fixed VPKs are listed: