Licensing Requirements For Smart Call Home; Prerequisites For Smart Call Home; Guidelines And Limitations For Smart Call Home - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Configuration Manual

Licensing Requirements for Smart Call Home

By default, you are placed in the default VDC. In the default VDC, you can test Smart Call Home using the
callhome send and callhome test commands. In a nondefault VDC, only the callhome test command is
available. For more information on VDCs, see the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Virtual Device Context
Configuration Guide.
Smart Call Home is virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) aware. You can configure Smart Call Home to use
a particular VRF to reach the Smart Call Home SMTP server.
Licensing Requirements for Smart Call Home
Product
Cisco
NX-OS

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.
• If you configure VDCs, install the appropriate license. See the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Virtual

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.
• If you distribute the Smart Call Home configuration using CFS, then the entire Smart Call Home
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License Requirement
Smart Call Home requires no license. Any feature not included in a license package is bundled
with the nx-os image and is provided at no extra charge to you. For a complete explanation
of the Cisco NX-OS licensing scheme, see the Cisco NX-OS Licensing Guide.
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.
Device Context Configuration Guide for configuration information and the Cisco NX-OS Licensing
Guide for licensing information.
the profile destination is down, the device cannot send Smart Call Home messages.
configuration is distributed except device priority and the sysContact names.
Configuring Smart Call Home