What Is Phonehome and What Does It Do? (KBA1333)

What is Phonehome

Phonehome will periodically have the Delphix Engine send supportability information to the Delphix Support site over HTTPS.  This feature requires a connection to the internet and will use the Web Proxy Server configuration if specified. Phonehome is not required by Delphix but does provide us with some basic information such as number of objects on your engine, storage savings, type of database source, number of processors etc. Delphix uses this data for information gathering purposes only.

Applicable Delphix Versions

Click here to view the versions of the Delphix engine to which this article applies

Major Release	All Sub Releases
6.0	6.0.0.0
5.3	5.3.0.0, 5.3.0.1, 5.3.0.2, 5.3.0.3, 5.3.1.0, 5.3.1.1, 5.3.1.2, 5.3.2.0, 5.3.3.0, 5.3.3.1, 5.3.4.0, 5.3.5.0 5.3.6.0, 5.3.7.0, 5.3.7.1, 5.3.8.0
5.2	5.2.2.0, 5.2.2.1, 5.2.3.0, 5.2.4.0, 5.2.5.0, 5.2.5.1, 5.2.6.0, 5.2.6.1
5.1	5.1.0.0, 5.1.1.0, 5.1.2.0, 5.1.3.0, 5.1.4.0, 5.1.5.0, 5.1.5.1, 5.1.6.0, 5.1.7.0, 5.1.8.0, 5.1.8.1, 5.1.9.0, 5.1.10.0
5.0	5.0.1.0, 5.0.1.1, 5.0.2.0, 5.0.2.1, 5.0.2.2, 5.0.2.3, 5.0.3.0, 5.0.3.1, 5.0.4.0, 5.0.4.1 ,5.0.5.0, 5.0.5.1, 5.0.5.2, 5.0.5.3, 5.0.5.4
4.3	4.3.1.0, 4.3.2.0, 4.3.2.1, 4.3.3.0, 4.3.4.0, 4.3.4.1, 4.3.5.0
4.2	4.2.0.0, 4.2.0.3, 4.2.1.0, 4.2.1.1, 4.2.2.0, 4.2.2.1, 4.2.3.0, 4.2.4.0 , 4.2.5.0, 4.2.5.1
4.1	4.1.0.0, 4.1.2.0, 4.1.3.0, 4.1.3.1, 4.1.3.2, 4.1.4.0, 4.1.5.0, 4.1.6.0

How do I set up Phonehome?

You can either enable phonehome during initial install:

During initial installation: select Phone Home Service enabled 

or afterward:

1. Log in to the Sysadmin Application.
2. Navigate to Serviceability.
3. Select Modify.
4. Provide the required information and click OK.

How do I disable Phonehome?

1. Log in to the Sysadmin Application.
2. Navigate to Serviceability.
3. Select Modify.
4. Uncheck Phone Home Service enabled and click OK.