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Receiving automatic technical support

Configuring autosupport

Autosupport options  Top

To configure autosupport, you specify autosupport options. The autosupport options are shown in the following table.

Autosupport option

Description

autosupport.cifs.verbose [ on | off ]

Enables and disables inclusion of CIFS sessions and shares information in autosupport messages. The default is Off.

autosupport.content [ complete | minimal ]

Indicates the type of content that autosupport messages should contain. The default is Complete.

autosupport.dafs.verbose [ on | off ]

Enables and disables inclusion of DAFS information in autosupport messages. The default is Off.

autosupport.doit [ message ]

Tells the autosupport daemon to send an autosupport notification immediately.

The message can be a single word or a string enclosed in single quotation marks. The message is included in the subject line of the autosupport notification and should be used to explain the reason for the notification.

You can verify that autosupport is working by using the "Call Home Check" function, which sends an autosupport.doit message with a subject line containing any variation of the word TEST or TESTING. When such a message is sent to autosupport@netapp.com, the mail handler sends an automated response to those addresses, indicating that the test autosupport message was received successfully.

autosupport.enable [ on | off ]

Enables and disables autosupport notification. The default is On.

autosupport.from sender

Defines the user to be designated as the sender of the notification.

autosupport.mailhost host1[, ..., host5]

Defines the list of up to five mail host names. The host names should be entered as a comma-separated list with no spaces in between. The default an empty string.

autosupport.minimal.subject.id [hostname | systemid]

Defines how the system is identified in the autosupport message title if autosupport.content is Minimal. The default is System ID.

autosupport.noteto address1[, ..., address5]

Defines the list of recipients for the autosupport short note e-mail. Up to five mail addresses are allowed. Enter the addresses as a comma-separated list with no spaces in between. The default is a null list to disable short note e-mails.

autosupport.retry.count #retries

Defines the number of times the filer will try to resend the autosupport notification before giving up. Retries can be between 5 and 4,294,967,295. The default is 15.

autosupport.retry.interval interval

Defines the time to delay before trying to resend the autosupport notification. The values can end with s, m, or h to indicate seconds, minutes, or hours, respectively. If no units are specified, the value is assumed to be in seconds. Values can range from 30 seconds to 1 day. The default is 4 minutes.

autosupport.support.enable [ on | off ]

Enables and disables the autosupport notification to Network Appliance. The default is On.

autosupport.support.proxy

Allows you to set an HTTP proxy if necessary. This is useful only if autosupport.support.transport is http or https.

autosupport.support.to 

Indicates where autosupport notifications to Network Appliance are sent if autosupport.support.transport is smtp. This option is read-only and is shown for informational purposes only.

autosupport.support.transport [ http | https | smtp ] 

Defines the type of delivery for autosupport notifications to Network Appliance. The default is https.

autosupport.support.url 

Indicates where autosupport notifications to Network Appliance are sent if autosupport.support.transport is http or https. This option is read-only and is shown for informational purposes only.

autosupport.throttle [ on | off ]

Drops additional messages when too many autosupport messages of the same type are sent in too short a time. The default is On.

autosupport.to address1[, ..., address5]

Defines the list of recipients for the autosupport e-mail notification. Up to five mail addresses are allowed or the list can be left empty.

Enter the addresses as a comma-separated list with no spaces in between. The default is no list.

Configuring the autosupport feature  Top

To configure autosupport, complete the following step.

Note
All autosupport options except the autosupport.doit option are persistent between reboots.

Step

Action

1

Issue any of the autosupport options commands shown in the preceding table to the filer:

options autosupport.option arguments

autosupport.option is one of the options shown in the preceding table.

arguments is any required or optional arguments shown in the preceding table.

Testing autosupport  Top

To test autosupport, complete the following step.

Step

Action

1

Enter the following command:

options autosupport.doit message

message is the subject line for the test autosupport e-mail.

If you use the keyword TEST in the message, you will receive a return message from Network Appliance indicating that the autosupport process is working correctly. For more information, see the information on the autosupport.doit command in Autosupport options.

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