Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 2000 Technisches Handbuch

You can increase the amount of traffic inspected on a network segment by stacking the 8000
Series appliances and use their combined resources in a single, shared, configuration. This
document describes how to configure stack on the Firepower 8000 Series appliances.

In a stack deployment, one of the device connected to the network segments is designated as the
primary device, wherein all other devices are designated as secondary devices and are deployed
to provide additional resources to the primary device.

You must make sure all of the devices on the stack...

Have the stacking cables physically connected to their stacking modules
Tip: If you do not have stacking cables, use the PID 

FP-NMSB-CABLE=

 to order it. Similarly, if

you need to order stacking modules, use 

FP8000-STACK-MOD

 as the PID for stacking

modules.

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Have the same hardware

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Have the same software versions

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Have the same Access Control Policy, and NAT policy (if any)

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Have the same licenses

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Note: In case of higher end device models like 8360, you may have only one license to
apply, after the stack is formed. The individual devices to be stacked may be unlicensed.
After the devices are stacked, the license page appears under the stack section rather than
the device section.

The following chart summarizes the supported models of Firepower devices that you can use to
build a stack. To learn the detail 

 of each model, please read the