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Fulfilling Prerequisites – Cisco Firewall Deployment in Routed Mode

ByAva Cooper

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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Configurations on Management Center – Cisco Licensing and Registration

ByAva Cooper

Configurations on Management Center The second step of the registration process is to enter the details of the threat defense in the web interface of the management center. When you provide the details, you must use the same registration key (and the same NAT ID, if used) that you configured on the threat defense previously….

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Cisco Secure Firewall Licenses – Cisco Licensing and Registration

ByAva Cooper

Cisco Secure Firewall Licenses The Cisco Secure Firewall offers many security features to protect your network. Some licenses are permanent, and some are term based. Some features are subject to country-specific laws, and some are available to anyone. The following sections discuss various licenses to enable security functionalities on Secure Firewall. Feature License A base…

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Validation of Licensing – Cisco Licensing and Registration

ByAva Cooper

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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Do I Know This Already? – Cisco Licensing and Registration

ByAva Cooper

Do I Know This Already? The “Do I Know This Already?” quiz enables you to assess whether you should read this entire chapter thoroughly or jump to the “Exam Preparation Tasks” section. If you are in doubt about your answers to these questions or your own assessment of your knowledge of the topics, read the…

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On-Premises Server – Cisco Licensing and Registration

ByAva Cooper

On-Premises Server Because the Cisco Smart Licensing Cloud is hosted at cisco.com, your management center needs to connect to the Internet to obtain a smart license from Cisco. However, some organizations may have a limited Internet access policy, which can prevent a management center from connecting to the Internet directly. In that environment, you can…

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Cisco Licensing Architecture – Cisco Licensing and Registration

ByAva Cooper

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)….

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

ByAva Cooper

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…