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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide, Release 3.x
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Chapter 25 Troubleshooting Call Home
Call Home Issues
Receiving Too Many Call Home Alerts
Symptom
Receiving too many Call Home alerts.
Not Receiving Syslog-based Call Home Alerts
Symptom
Not receiving syslog-based Call Home alerts.
Table 25-4
Receiving Too Many Call Home Alerts
Symptom
Possible Cause
Solution
Receiving too many
Call Home alerts
Too many alert groups are configured
for the destination profile.
Remove unneeded alert groups from the destination profile
or separate into independent destination profiles. See the
“Configuring an Alert Group Using Fabric Manager”
section on page 25-4
or the
“Configuring an Alert Group
Using the CLI” section on page 25-5
.
The message level is not set correctly in
the destination profile.
Reset the message level to allow only the more important
messages. See the
“Configuring the Message Level for a
Destination Profile Using Fabric Manager” section on
page 25-5
or the
“Configuring the Message Level for a
Destination Profile Using the CLI” section on page 25-5
.
Message throttling is disabled.
Enable Call Home message throttling. Choose
Switches >
Events
>
Call Home
in Fabric Manager, click the
General
tab, check the
Duplicate Message Throttle
check box, and
then click
Apply Changes
. Or use the
duplicate-message
throttle
CLI command.
Table 25-5
Not Receiving Syslog-based Call Home Alerts
Symptom
Possible Cause
Solution
Not receiving
syslog-based Call
Home alerts
The syslog- group-port alert group is
not configured for the destination
profile.
Add the alert group to the destination profile. See the
“Configuring an Alert Group Using Fabric Manager”
section on page 25-4
or the
“Configuring an Alert Group
Using the CLI” section on page 25-5
.
The message level is not set correctly in
the destination profile.
Set the message level. See
Table 25-1
for the relationship
between syslog message levels and Call Home message
levels. See the
“Configuring the Message Level for a
Destination Profile Using Fabric Manager” section on
page 25-5
or the
“Configuring the Message Level for a
Destination Profile Using the CLI” section on page 25-5
.
Verify the syslog message level configured on the switch.
Choose
Switches > Events
>
Syslog
in Fabric Manager and
click th
e Severity Level
tab. Or use the
show logging level
CLI command.