Re: OT: ASA Phones home by default?

Also, it's not phoning home "by default" - I got the same prompt you did when upgrading an old ASA to 8.4.x - I got asked the question, and made my choice. It didn't enable it by default. I would have been quite annoyed if it was auto-enabled, but I'm OK with it asking me.

Definitely not like the other recent Cisco/Linksys enforce "upgrade" debacle. (going even further OT there)

On 12/07/2012, at 3:27 PM, Ryan Lindfield wrote:

> Smart call home is cool, it's been there for a while, lots of products are doing it now.
>
> Its "proactive diagnostics" if voltage, fans, or others sensors are throwing errors they can help you get it swapped put before there is a failure. You can opt out if you don't want to, what's not to like?
>
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jul 11, 2012, at 8:09 PM, "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe_at_affirmedsystems.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi group,
>>
>> It appears the latest 8.2.5 ASA code phones home by default -
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> office-fw1# sh vers | grep 8.2
>> Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.2(5)
>>
>> ***************************** NOTICE *****************************
>>
>> Help to improve the ASA platform by enabling anonymous reporting,
>> which allows Cisco to securely receive minimal error and health
>> information from the device. To learn more about this feature,
>> please visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/smartcall
>>
>> Would you like to enable anonymous error reporting to help improve
>> the product? [Y]es, [N]o, [A]sk later: N
>>
>> In the future, if you would like to enable this feature,
>> issue the command "call-home reporting anonymous".
>>
>> Please remember to save your configuration.
>>
>> office-fw1(config)#
>>
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