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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using the CLI
Chapter80 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 80-7
Declaring and Authenticating a CA Trust Point, page80-8
Configuring DNS, page80-8
Subscribing to Alert Groups, page80-9
Testing Call Home Communications, page80-11
Optional Configuration Procedures, page80-13

Enabling Smart Call Home

This section contains information about performing basic setup for the Smart Call Home feature.
To enable Smart Call Home and activate your call-home profile, perform this task:
Step1 service call-home
Example:
hostname(config)# service call-home
Enables the smart call home service.
Step2 call-home
Example:
hostname(config)# call-home
Enters call-home configuration mode.
Step3 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.
Step4 profile profile-name
Example:
hostname(cfg-call-home)# profile CiscoTAC-1
Enables the profile.
The default profile name is CiscoTAC-1.
Step5 active
Example:
hostname(cfg-call-home-profile)# active
Activates the call home profile.
To disable this profile, enter the no active command.
Step6 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 “Sending the Output of
a Command” section on page 80-12.