Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Quick Start Configuration Manual
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Smart Call Home Quick Start Configuration Guide for
Cisco Nexus
Cisco Smart Call Home offers diagnostics and real-time alerts on select Cisco devices, which provides higher
network availability and increased operational efficiency. Smart Call Home is a connected service of Cisco
SMARTnet™ for the Nexus 9000.
This document provides the minimum steps to configure and register a Nexus 9000 for Smart Call Home using the
following four available options. It is assumed that the device has the necessary DNS configuration (ip domain-name
and ip name-server for DNS look-ups or ip host for static entries) in order to resolve host-names that may appear in
destination addresses
.
1.
H TTPS transp ort from the N exu s 9000 to Cisco
2.
Em ail transp ort from the N exu s 9000 to Cisco
3.
H TTP from the N exu s 9000 to a Transp ort Gatew ay (TG) - H TTPS transp ort to Cisco
4.
Em ail from the N exu s 9000 to a Transp ort Gatew ay (TG) - H TTPS transp ort to Cisco
Note: For security reasons, Cisco recommends customers make use of one of the HTTPS transport options, due to the
additional payload encryption that HTTPS offers. The
is available for customers who require an aggregation point or a proxy for connection to the internet.
Requirements for Smart Call Home:
N X-OS version 6.1(2) is the m inim u m version requ ired to su p p ort Call H om e
A CCO ID associated w ith an ap p rop riate Cisco SMARTnet ™ Service contract for you r com p any
Cisco SMARTnet™ Service for the d evice to be registered
Resources for Smart Call Home
Sm art Call H om e Su p p ort Foru m
Cisco N exu s 9000 Series Configu ring Sm art Call H om e
Smart Call Home Server Certificate for HTTPS
®
9000 Series Switches
Transport Gateway software
:
is downloadable from Cisco and
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Summary of Contents for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
- Page 1 N X-OS version 6.1(2) is the m inim u m version requ ired to su p p ort Call H om e A CCO ID associated w ith an ap p rop riate Cisco SMARTnet ™ Service contract for you r com p any ...
- Page 2 Call Home Configuration - HTTPS to Cisco The following is a sample configuration showing the minimum steps required to configure Call Home on a Nexus 9000 to communicate with the Smart Call Home System using HTTPS and a command to start the registration process.
- Page 3 Receive an email from Cisco and follow the link to complete registration for Smart Call Home Call Home Configuration - Email to Smart Call Home The following is a sample configuration showing the minimum steps required to configure Call Home on a Nexus 9000 to communicate using email with the Smart Call Home System and a command to start the registration process.
- Page 4 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.
- Page 5 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.
- Page 6 Downloading Cisco Transport Gateway Software To download Cisco Transport Gateway software, go to the Download Software web page. On that page the Related Information section on the right lists the different OS versions (Linux, Solaris, Windows) of Transport Gateway software. Find the correct OS version of Transport Gateway software in the list and then click either Download Now or Add to cart.