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Firepower 7000 and 8000 Series Installation Guide
5
Setting Up Firepower Managed Devices
After you deploy and install a Firepower device, you must complete a setup process that allows the new
appliance to communicate on your trusted management network. You must also change the administrator
password and accept the end user license agreement (EULA).
The setup process also allows you to perform many initial administrative-level tasks, such as setting the
time, registering and licensing devices, and scheduling updates. The options you choose during setup
and registration determine the default interfaces, inline sets, zones, and policies that the system creates
and applies.
The purpose of these initial configurations and policies is to provide an out-of-the-box experience and
to help you quickly set up your deployment, not to restrict your options. Regardless of how you initially
configure a device, you can change its configuration at any time using the Firepower Management
Center. In other words, choosing a detection mode or access control policy during setup, for example,
does not lock you into a specific device, zone, or policy configuration.
For more information on each of the steps in the initial setup process, see the following sections:
•
Understanding the Setup Process, page 5-2
outlines the setup process.
Note
If you are not already familiar with the setup process, Cisco
strongly
recommends you read this section
first.
•
Performing Initial Setup on a Firepower Device Using the CLI, page 5-3
explains how to use an
interactive command line interface (CLI) to perform the setup process on a Firepower device.
•
Initial Setup Page: Firepower Devices, page 5-5
explains how to use any device’s web interface to
complete its initial setup.
•
contains guidance on the post-setup tasks you may want to perform as you set
up your Firepower System deployment.
Caution
The procedures in this chapter explain how to set up an appliance without powering it down. However,
if you need to power down for any reason, use the procedure in the Device Management Basics chapter
in the
Firepower Management Center Configuration Guide
, the
system shutdown
command from the
CLI on a Firepower device, or the
shutdown -h now
command from an appliance’s shell (sometimes
called expert mode).