Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000

You must have a valid email relay server configured to send status messages. See 

 for more information about configuring a relay host.

Click 

.

The task is added. You can check the status of a running task on the Task Status page; see 

.

Any

If you are using a Defense Center to create a task to install a software update on a managed device, make 
sure you allow enough time between the task that pushes the update to the device and the task that installs 
the update. See 

 for information about pushing updates to 

managed devices.

Depending on the update being installed, the appliance may reboot after the software is installed.

Admin/Maint

Select 

. 

The Scheduling page appears.

Click 

.

The New Task page appears.

From the 

 list, select 

.

The page reloads to show the options for installing updates.

Specify how you want to schedule the task, 

 or 

:

For one-time tasks, use the drop-down lists to specify the start date and time. The 

 field 

indicates the current time on the appliance.

For recurring tasks, you have several options for setting the interval between instances of the task. 
See 

 for details.

In the 

 field, type a name using up to 255 alphanumeric characters, spaces, or dashes.

From the 

 list, you have the following options:

Select the device where you want to install the update.

Select the name of the Defense Center to install the update there.

In the 

 section, select 

.

Optionally, in the 

 field, type a comment using up to 255 alphanumeric characters, spaces, or 

periods.

The comment field appears in the View Tasks section of the page, so you should try to keep it relatively 
short.