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Call Home Configuration - Email 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 communicate, via a Transport Gateway, with the Smart Call Home System using

HTTPS 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

Smart Call Home.

1. 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

2. 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

3. Configure the mandatory email server information and from email address - The server address

is an IPv4 address, IPv6 address or domain-name of a SMTP server that Call Home will send

email messages to. Optional port number (default = 25) and VRF may also be configured.

NX-9000(config-callhome)#transport email smtp-server ip-address port 25 use-vrf vrf-name

NX-9000(config-callhome)#transport email from email-address

4. Set the destination profile CiscoTAC-1 email-address to an email address for the account

that the Transport Gateway will be accessing -

NX-9000(config-callhome)#destination-profile CiscoTAC-1 email-addr email-address

5. Set the periodic inventory interval to 30 days -

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

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

NX-9000#callhome test inventory

trying to send test callhome inventory message

successfully sent test callhome inventorymessage

Receive an em ail from Cisco and follow the link to com plete the registration for Sm art Call hom e.

Transp ort Gatew ay softw are

has been installed, configured and registered with