McAfee XC-240 Quick Start Manual Download

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This quick start guide explains how to quickly set up and activate your McAfee

Network Security Platform XC-240

Load Balancer. The SFP+ (Small Form-factor Pluggable) Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports are used.

The SFP+ modules are bundled along with your XC-240 device.

All product documentation referenced in this quick start guide is found on the McAfee Service Portal.

The XC-240 front panel

SFP+ 10 Gigabit Ethernet Monitoring ports (16)

SFP+ 10 Gigabit Sensor ports (8)

Console port (1)

10/100/1000 Management port (1)

The XC-240 rear panel

Power supply 1

Power supply 2

XC-240 Load Balancer setup overview

This section explains how to position and cable the various ports of your XC-240. This section also briefly explains

how to install the Manager and then add the XC-240 to the Manager.

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McAfee Network Security Platform

(XC-240 Quick Start Guide)

Summary of Contents for XC-240

Page 1: ...nd on the McAfee Service Portal The XC 240 front panel 1 SFP 10 Gigabit Ethernet Monitoring ports 16 2 SFP 10 Gigabit Sensor ports 8 3 Console port 1 4 10 100 1000 Management port 1 The XC 240 rear pa...

Page 2: ...nd of the Console port cable directly to a COM port of the computer or terminal server you will be using to configure the XC 240 for example a computer running correctly configured Windows Hypertermin...

Page 3: ...n to monitor traffic between a switch and a router connect the cable connected to 1A to the router and the one connected to 1B to the switch For instructions on how to cable the XC 240 to run in other...

Page 4: ...ere ip address is the IPv4 address for XC 240 netmask is the netmask and gateway is the IP address of the gateway To configure an IPv6 address type sysip inet6_set ipaddr IP address prefixlen prefix l...

Page 5: ...vPass privacy password access rw ip IP of the Manager port 4169 admin enable Example snmp trap_add name nsmuser type v3 ip 172 25 70 140 port 4169 authProto SHA authPass admin123 privProto AES privPas...

Page 6: ...y Manager You do not require a license file for using Manager Central Manager version 5 1 17 2 or above and 6 0 7 x or above 8 Add the XC 240 to the Manager The Manager displays the Login page a Log o...

Page 7: ...To add an XC Cluster To create an XC Cluster at least one M 8000XC Sensor and one XC 240 Load Balancer should have been added a Click Device List XC Clusters and then click New b Move the added XC 24...

Page 8: ...ministration Guide for an overview of the Load Balancing mechanism and detailed usage instructions Click the Detailed Help buttons in the upper right corner of each window in the Manager b Read the Mc...