> # Configuring Call Home

> Call Home provides e-mail-based notification of critical system events. A versatile range of message formats are available for optimal compatibility with pager services, standard e-mail, or XML-based automated parsing applications.

> Note Cisco Autonotify is upgraded to a new capability called Smart Call Home. Smart Call Home has significant functionality improvement over Autonotify and is available across the Cisco product range. For detailed information on Smart Call Home, see the Smart Call Home page at this location: http://www.cisco.com/go/smartcall/

> This chapter includes the following sections:

> - Information About Call Home
> - Guidelines and Limitations
> - Default Settings
> - Configuring Call Home
> - Monitoring Call Home
> - Field Descriptions for Call Home
> - Additional References
> - Feature History for Call Home

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