Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Quick Start Configuration Manual page 4

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Call Home Configuration - HTTP to Transport Gateway and HTTPS to Cisco

The following is a sample configuration showing the minimum steps required to configure Call Home on a Nexus 9000 to use HTTP to send Call

Home messages to a Transport Gateway (TG) and a command to start the registration process. The TG will use HTTPS to communicate with the

Smart Call Home System. This assumes that the

Home.

Set the system contact - In global configuration mode enter the mandatory system contact

using the snmp-server contact command.

NX-9000#config t

NX-9000(config)#snmp-server contact sys-contact

Configure the mandatory contact information (phone number, email address, & street address)

NX-9000(config)#callhome

NX-9000(config-callhome)#email-contact email-address

NX-9000(config-callhome)#phone-contact +1-000-000-0000

NX-9000(config-callhome)#streetaddress a-street-address

Set the destination profile CiscoTAC-1's transport method and address - The destination

HTTP address is provided by the Transport Gateway (Refer to

section).

NX-9000(config-callhome)#destination-profile CiscoTAC-1 transport-method http

NX-9000(config-callhome)#destination-profile CiscoTAC-1 http http://url-from-TG

Specify VRF for Callhome messages - If the VRF to be used is not the default, then set the

VRF using the transport http configuration command.

enabled and working in the specified VRF.

NX-9000(config-callhome)# transport http use-vrf vrf-name

Set the periodic inventory interval to 30 days -

NX-9000(config-callhome)#periodic-inventory notification interval 30

Send a Call Home Inventory message to start the registration process -

NX-9000#callhome test inventory

send test callhome inventory message

successfully sent test callhome inventorymessage

Receive an email from Cisco and follow the link to complete registration for Smart Call

home.

Transport Gateway software

has been installed, configured and registered with Smart Call

Configu re the H TTP Server

It is critical that DNS look-ups are