In this post I am going to share with you how an FMC can register an FTD that was already registered with another FMC. In my lab I had two FMCs, and one FTD. The FTD was already registered with an FMC, and it had another FMC registration in pending…
In this post I am going to show you how to delete the pending manager in FTD. The reason why we would have a pending manager in the first place would be right after we register a manager (FMC) in the FTD, but before we add that FTD to the…
In this post I’m going to show you how to configure the pager lines in FTD. That’s to have the display screen paged rather than skipping to the end, and having to scroll back up to search for what we want. In other words, to have the show command output…
While I was trying to configure DHCP Relay on an FTD the other day, I was stuck for a while with the Error : DHCP: Interface ‘inside’ is currently configured as CLIENT… . The exact error is below, and that was happening every time I was trying to deploy the configs…
In this post we will talk about the FTD Get Device Configuration and Push Device Configurations. These two options are available in FMC to allow replicating the configuration from one FTD appliance to another. The FTD Get Device Configuration allows us to replicate the configuration from a device to the…
When we configure a site to site VPN in FMC, on the IKE tab, we see an authentication type option to use a Preshared Automatic Key. In this post we will see what that option does for us. FMC as you know can manage multiple FTD appliances. The appliances that…
In this post we will see how to configure DHCP Relay Agent on FTD through FMC. DHCP Relay Agent would be required when our DHCP server is not located in the same broadcast domain as the DHCP clients. For instance, we might have a centralized DHCP server located in a…
This post will show you how to configure AnyConnect SSL VPN in FMC. However, it will show you a slightly different configuration comparing to the common one we mostly use. In this lab we will have a DHCP server inside our network, and that DHCP server will assign the AnyConnect…
Before we try to add an ISE node to our ISE cube, we need to make sure all the nodes are running the same exact software version. If not, ISE won’t allow us to add that node. This is applicable for both the major and the patch releases. For instance,…
As Cisco was suggesting, the Firepower User Agent for Active Directory as an identity source for FMC was going to be removed in the future releases. In fact, as of FMC version 6.6.0 the Firepower User Agent is gone. The only option left is integrating FMC with ISE using pxGrid.…
