Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000

Before you can connect to a Series 3 device using LOM/SOL, you must disable Spanning Tree Protocol 
(STP) on any third-party switching equipment connected to the device’s management interface.

Admin

Select 

.

The Information page appears.

Select 

.

The Console Configuration page appears.

Select a remote console access option:

Select 

 to use the appliance’s VGA port. This is the default option.

Select 

 to use the appliance’s serial port, or to use LOM/SOL on a Series  3 Defense 

Center or 8000 Series device.

Note that 3D2100, 3D2500, 3D3500, and 3D4500 managed devices do not have serial ports.

Select 

 to use LOM/SOL on a 7000  Series device. On these devices, you cannot 

use SOL and a regular serial connection at the same time.

If you selected 

 or 

, the LOM settings appear. 

When you change your remote console from 

 to 

 or from 

 to 

 on the 70xx Family of devices, you may have to 

reboot the appliance twice to see the expected boot prompt. 

To configure LOM via SOL, enter the appropriate settings: 

DHCP 

 for the appliance (

 or 

) 

 to be used for LOM 

The LOM IP address must be different from the management interface IP address of the 
appliance.

the 

 for the appliance

the 

 for the appliance

Click 

.

Remote console configuration for the appliance is saved. If you configured Lights-Out Management, you 
must enable it for at least one user; see 

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