Prerequisites For Smart Call Home; Guidelines And Limitations For Smart Call Home; Default Settings For Smart Call Home - Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Prerequisites for Smart Call Home

Prerequisites for Smart Call Home
Smart Call Home has the following prerequisites:
• To send messages to an email address, you must first configure an email server. To send messages using
• Your device must have IP connectivity to an email server or HTTPS server.
• You must first configure the contact name (SNMP server contact), phone, and street address information.
• If you use Smart Call Home, you need an active service contract for the device that you are configuring.

Guidelines and Limitations for Smart Call Home

Smart Call Home has the following configuration guidelines and limitations:
• If there is no IP connectivity or if the interface in the virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) instance to
• Smart Call Home operates with any SMTP server.
• You can configure up to five SMTP servers for Smart Call Home.

Default Settings for Smart Call Home

This table lists the default settings for Smart Call Home parameters.
Table 8: Default Smart Call Home Parameters
Parameters
Destination message size for a message sent in full
text format
Destination message size for a message sent in XML
format
Destination message size for a message sent in short
text format
SMTP server port number if no port is specified
SMTP server priority if no priority is specified
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HTTP, you must have access to an HTTPS server and have a valid certificate installed on the Cisco
Nexus device.
This step is required to determine the origin of messages received.
the profile destination is down, the device cannot send Smart Call Home messages.
Configuring Smart Call Home
Default
2,500,000
2,500,000
4000
25
50