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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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Management Communication over the Internet – Cisco Licensing and Registration

Management Communication over the Internet This section may be optional for your lab environment, but it describes a real-world deployment use case. Some organizations require you to position Secure Firewall in various geographical locations and ensure their registration and management communications over the Internet. For example, threat defense devices are deployed in remote branch offices,…

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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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Virtual Machine Creation for Secure Firewall – Cisco Deployment of Secure Firewall Virtual

Virtual Machine Creation for Secure Firewall Once a virtual network is built in the VMware ESXi host, and the desired software package for the Secure Firewall virtual appliance is downloaded and extracted, you are ready to deploy and set up a virtual appliance. Log in to the web client of your ESXi server using a…