Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000

 explains how to configure interfaces on your managed 

devices.

You can use a Defense Center to manage nearly every aspect of a device’s behavior. You need only one 
Defense Center to manage a device, though you can also use a second Defense Center as part of a high 
availability pair. The sections that follow explain some of the concepts you need to know as you plan 
your FireSIGHT System deployment:

You can use your Defense Center as a central management point in a FireSIGHT System deployment to 
manage the following devices:

FirePOWER managed devices

Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services devices

software-based devices, such as virtual devices and Sourcefire Software for  X-Series

Cisco recommends than you manage no more than three devices (including software-based devices) with 
the DC500 model Defense Center. For details on DC500 database limitations see the 

 table.

When you manage a device, information is transmitted between the Defense Center and the device over 
a secure, SSL-encrypted TCP tunnel.

The following illustration lists what is transmitted between a Defense Center and its managed devices. 
Note that the types of events and policies that are sent between the appliances are based on the device 
type.