Hi Joe/ Brian,

Since we didn’t get a chance to discuss the patch [IBM SVf driver] Adding support for callhome plugin, we can continue the conversation here.

Patch : https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/951829.

We need callhome enabled as default for which we have introduced a parameter “callhome” in cinder.conf. This feature is to fecth the os_version, cinder-manage version and ispbhaenabled.

Note: We are not fetching any customer’s sensitive data.

Please let me know if you’ve had a chance to review NetApp’s ActiveIQ implementation. Netapp’s ActiveIQ code ref :  https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/cinder/volume/drivers/netapp/utils.py#L570

As we have discussed during the 9^th July cinder call, Anoop from NetApp confirmed that they are enabling it by default and EMS details are being captured from the logs.

Based on that, do you think we can align or extend our current IBM callhome implementation (from the patch above) to follow a similar approach?

Thanks,
Vivek