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Information About Call Home Chapter 7 Configuring Call Home The Call Home feature can deliver alerts to multiple recipients, referred to as Call Home destination profiles, each with configurable message formats and content categories. A predefined destination profile (CiscoTAC-1) is provided, and you also can define your own destination profiles. The CiscoTAC-1 profile is used to send alerts to the backend server of the Smart Call Home service, which can be used to create service requests to the Cisco TAC (depending on the Smart Call Home service support in place for your device and the severity of the alert). Flexible message delivery and format options make it easy to integrate specific support requirements. This section contains the following topics: • Benefits of Using Call Home, page 7-2 • How to Obtain Smart Call Home Service, page 7-2 Benefits of Using Call Home The Call Home feature offers the following benefits: • Multiple message-format options: - Short Text-Suitable for pagers or printed reports. - Plain Text-Full formatted message information suitable for human reading. - XML-Matching readable format using Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Adaptive Markup Language (AML) document type definitions (DTDs). The XML format enables communication with the Cisco Smart Call Home server. • Multiple concurrent message destinations. • Multiple message categories, including configuration, diagnostics, environmental conditions, inventory, and syslog events. • Filtering of messages by severity and pattern matching. • Scheduling of periodic message sending. How to Obtain Smart Call Home Service If you have a service contract directly with Cisco Systems, you can register your Call Home devices for the Cisco Smart Call Home service. Smart Call Home provides fast resolution of system problems by analyzing Call Home messages sent from your devices and providing background information and recommendations. For issues that can be identified as known, automatic Service Requests can be generated with the Cisco TAC. This depends on the Smart Call Home service support in place for your device and the severity of the alert. Smart Call Home offers the following features: • Analysis of Call Home messages from your device, and where supported, automatic Service Request generation routed to the appropriate TAC team, including detailed diagnostic information to speed problem resolution. • Continuous device health monitoring. • Analysis of Call Home messages from your device. Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Software Configuration Guide 7-2 OL-16506-10

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Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 7
Configuring Call Home
Information About Call Home
The Call Home feature can deliver alerts to multiple recipients, referred to as
Call Home destination
profiles
, each with configurable message formats and content categories. A predefined destination
profile (CiscoTAC-1) is provided, and you also can define your own destination profiles. The
CiscoTAC-1 profile is used to send alerts to the backend server of the Smart Call Home service, which
can be used to create service requests to the Cisco TAC (depending on the Smart Call Home service
support in place for your device and the severity of the alert).
Flexible message delivery and format options make it easy to integrate specific support requirements.
This section contains the following topics:
Benefits of Using Call Home, page 7-2
How to Obtain Smart Call Home Service, page 7-2
Benefits of Using Call Home
The Call Home feature offers the following benefits:
Multiple message-format options:
Short Text—Suitable for pagers or printed reports.
Plain Text—Full formatted message information suitable for human reading.
XML—Matching readable format using Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Adaptive
Markup Language (AML) document type definitions (DTDs). The XML format enables
communication with the Cisco Smart Call Home server.
Multiple concurrent message destinations.
Multiple message categories, including configuration, diagnostics, environmental conditions,
inventory, and syslog events.
Filtering of messages by severity and pattern matching.
Scheduling of periodic message sending.
How to Obtain Smart Call Home Service
If you have a service contract directly with Cisco Systems, you can register your Call Home devices for
the Cisco Smart Call Home service. Smart Call Home provides fast resolution of system problems by
analyzing Call Home messages sent from your devices and providing background information and
recommendations. For issues that can be identified as known, automatic Service Requests can be
generated with the Cisco TAC. This depends on the Smart Call Home service support in place for your
device and the severity of the alert.
Smart Call Home offers the following features:
Analysis of Call Home messages from your device, and where supported, automatic Service Request
generation routed to the appropriate TAC team, including detailed diagnostic information to speed
problem resolution.
Continuous device health monitoring.
Analysis of Call Home messages from your device.