Anonymous Call Home

The Anonymous Call Home feature is a sub-feature of the Smart Call Home feature that allows Cisco to anonymously receive inventory and telemetry messages. Enable this feature to keep your identification anonymous.

The following are the characteristics of Anonymous Call Home:
  • The Cisco Unified Communications Manager sends only inventory and telemetry messages and not diagnostic and configuration information to Smart Call Home back-end.

  • It will not send any user related information (for example, registered devices and upgrade history).

  • Anonymous call home option does not require registration or entitlement for Smart Call Home feature with Cisco.

  • The inventory and telemetry messages are sent periodically (first day of every month) to the Call Home back-end.

  • Include Trace logs and Diagnostic Information option is disabled if Cisco Unified CM is configured to use Anonymous Call Home.

Inventory messages contains information about the cluster, nodes, and license.

The following table lists the inventory messages for Smart Call Home and Anonymous Call Home.

Inventory Messages for Smart Call Home and Anonymous Call Home

Inventory messages

Smart Call Home

Anonymous Call Home

Contact Email

Applicable

Not Applicable

Contact Phone number

Applicable

Not Applicable

Street Address

Applicable

Not Applicable

Server Name

Applicable

Not Applicable

Server IP Address

Applicable

Not Applicable

Licence Server

Applicable

Not Applicable

OS Version

Applicable

Applicable

Model

Applicable

Applicable

Serial Number

Applicable

Applicable

CPU Speed

Applicable

Applicable

RAM

Applicable

Applicable

Storage Partition

Applicable

Applicable

Firmware version

Applicable

Applicable

BIOS Version

Applicable

Applicable

BIOS Information

Applicable

Applicable

Raid Configuration

Applicable

Applicable

Active Services

Applicable

Applicable

Publisher Name

Applicable

Not Applicable

Publisher IP

Applicable

Not Applicable

Product ID

Applicable

Applicable

Active Version

Applicable

Applicable

Inactive Version

Applicable

Applicable

Product Short name

Applicable

Applicable

Telemetry messages contain information about the number of devices (IP phones, gateways, conference bridge, and so on) for each device type that is available on a Cisco Unified Communication Manager cluster. The telemetry data contains the device count for the entire cluster.

The following table lists the telemetry messages for Smart Call Home and Anonymous Call Home.

Telemetry Messages for Smart Call Home and Anonymous Call Home

Telemetry messages

Smart Call Home

Anonymous Call Home

Contact Email

Applicable

Not Applicable

Contact Phone number

Applicable

Not Applicable

Street Address

Applicable

Not Applicable

Server name

Applicable

Not Applicable

CM User Count

Applicable

Not Applicable

Serial Number

Applicable

Applicable

Publisher name

Applicable

Not Applicable

Device count and Model

Applicable

Applicable

Phone User Count

Applicable

Applicable

CM Call Activity

Applicable

Applicable

Registered Device count

Applicable

Not Applicable

Upgrade history

Applicable

Not Applicable

System Status

Applicable for Host name, Date, Locale, Product Version, OS Version, Licence MAC, Up Time, MP Stat, Memory Used, Disk Usage, Active and Inactive partition used, and DNS

Applicable for Date, Locale, Product Version, OS Version, Licence MAC, Up Time, Memory Used, Disk Usage, and Active and Inactive partition used

Configuration messages contain information about the row count for each database table that is related to a configuration. The configuration data consists of table name and row count for each table across the cluster.