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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using the CLI
Chapter 80 Configuring Anonymous Reporting and Smart Call Home
Configuring Anonymous Reporting and Smart Call Home
Configuring Smart Call Home
This section describes how to configure the Smart Call Home feature.
This section includes the following topics:
• Enabling Smart Call Home, page 80-7
• Declaring and Authenticating a CA Trust Point, page 80-8
• Configuring DNS, page 80-8
• Subscribing to Alert Groups, page 80-9
• Testing Call Home Communications, page 80-11
• Optional Configuration Procedures, page 80-13
Enabling Smart Call Home
This section contains information about performing basic setup for the Smart Call Home feature.
To enable Smart Call Home and activate your call-home profile, perform this task:
Step 1
service call-home
Example:
hostname(config)# service call-home
Enables the smart call home service.
Step 2
call-home
Example:
hostname(config)# call-home
Enters call-home configuration mode.
Step 3
contact-email-addr email
Example:
hostname(cfg-call-home)# contact-email-addr
username@example.com
Configures the mandatory contact address. The
address should be the Cisco.com ID account
associated with the device.
Step 4
profile profile-name
Example:
hostname(cfg-call-home)# profile CiscoTAC-1
Enables the profile.
The default profile name is CiscoTAC-1.
Step 5
active
Example:
hostname(cfg-call-home-profile)# active
Activates the call home profile.
To disable this profile, enter the no active command.
Step 6
destination transport-method http
Example:
hostname(cfg-call-home-profile)# destination
transport-method http
Configures the destination transport method for the
smart call-home message receiver.
The default destination transport method is e-mail.
To configure e-mail see the “Sending the Output of
a Command” section on page 80-12.