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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 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 1-7
• Declaring and Authenticating a CA Trust Point, page 1-8
• Subscribing to Alert Groups, page 1-9
• Optional Configuration Procedures, page 1-12
Enabling Smart Call Home
To enable Smart Call Home and activate your call-home profile, perform the following steps:
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. This account is the
e-mail address that you used to register the ASA
with Cisco on Cisco.com.
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 “Enabling Smart Call
Home” section on page 1-7.