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Fulfilling Prerequisites – Cisco Firewall Deployment in Routed Mode

Fulfilling Prerequisites Do you remember the last part of the threat defense installation and initialization process? During the initialization, the threat defense prompts to confirm the firewall mode, and you can select between routed mode and transparent mode (see Example 4-1). If you selected routed mode during the system initialization, you can skip this section…

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Validation of Registration – Cisco Licensing and Registration

Validation of Registration If the registration process is successful, the health status of the threat defense appears as healthy (check mark) in the device management page. Likewise, the tasks window displays successful completion of various registration-related activities. Additionally, you can run the show managers command in the threat defense CLI to confirm the status. Figure…

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Evaluation License – Cisco Licensing and Registration

Evaluation License Enabling security feature licenses on Secure Firewall is not a straightforward process. Especially after you purchase a brand-new firewall, you have to perform several steps to obtain smart licenses and to apply them on your Secure Firewall. Figure 3-6 shows a general workflow to procure smart licenses using Cisco SSM and then enable…

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Validation of Licensing – Cisco Licensing and Registration

Validation of Licensing Using the management center GUI, you can verify the entitlement status of your smart licenses and the registration status of management center with the Cisco Smart Licensing Cloud. Navigate to System > Smart Licenses to view the status in the Smart License Status page. If the management center is successfully registered with…

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Cisco Licensing Architecture – Cisco Licensing and Registration

Cisco Licensing Architecture The Cisco Secure Firewall supports both smart licensing and classic licensing models. A smart license provides a pool of software licenses that you can apply to any applicable devices throughout your company. Unlike a traditional classic license, a smart license enables you to register a device without its product activation key (PAK)….