Ask the ACI Experts: Callhome in the ACI Fabric

[Tomas de Leon]

The purpose of this BLOG is to discuss Questions, Concerns, and Issues with the Callhome Feature functionality in the ACI Fabrics. Since this is Feature focused we can monitor your feedback and push for improvements and enhancements if requested. Also, this forum allows you to ask questions and hopefully we can assist you and your questions.

Thank you again for participating in the Cisco Support Forum!

T.

[CHAD SIMMONS]

Does anyone know how to trigger a test email callhome to verify my callhome configuration? I can't seem to find it in the APIC GUI or CLI.

[Tomas de Leon]

Chad,

Currently in the latest released code versions. There is no way to initiate a Call Home message. There is an enhancement feature coming:

CSCuy61212 ACI: Enhancement to Send Test to CallHome Destinations 

This should be in the next major release so stay tuned.

Example:

fab2-p1-apic1# callhome ?
test Send callhome test message

fab2-p1-apic1# callhome test ?
alert Alert
critical Critical
debug Debug
emergency Emergency
error Error
info Info
notice Notice
warning Warning

fab2-p1-apic1# callhome test info ?
<CR>
node Source node

fab2-p1-apic1# callhome test info node ?
Source node leaf or spine node
2101
2102
211
212
213
214
216

fab2-p1-apic1# callhome test info node 211

Short TXT:
----------
From: "aci-admin@cisco.com" <aci-admin@acme.com>
Reply-To: "ciscok1d@gmail.com" <ciscok1d@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 1:40 PM
To: Tomas de Leon <tdeleon@acme.com>
Subject: This is a callhome test fault

Name: fab2-p1-leaf1
Id: 211
PodId: 1
Created: 0
Description: This is a callhome test fault
Status: deleted
Severity: info

I hope this helps!

T.