Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000
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FireSIGHT System User Guide
Chapter 55 Using Health Monitoring
Configuring Health Policies
Step 2
Select
On
for the
Enabled
option to enable use of the module for health status testing.
Step 3
You have three options:
•
To save your changes to this module and return to the Health Policy page, click
Save Policy and Exit
.
•
To return to the Health Policy page without saving any of your settings for this module, click
Cancel
.
•
To temporarily save your changes to this module and switch to another module’s settings to modify,
select the other module from the list at the left of the page. If you click
select the other module from the list at the left of the page. If you click
Save Policy and Exit
when you
are done, all changes you made will be saved; if you click
Cancel
, you discard all changes.
You must apply the health policy to the appropriate appliances if you want your settings to take effect.
See
See
for more information.
Configuring Appliance Heartbeat Monitoring
License:
Any
The Defense Center receives heartbeats from its managed devices once every two minutes or every 200
events, whichever comes first, as an indicator that the device is running and communicating properly
with the Defense Center. Use the Appliance Heartbeat health status module to track whether the Defense
Center receives heartbeats from managed appliances. If the Defense Center does not detect a heartbeat
from a device, the status classification for this module changes to Critical. That status data feeds into the
health monitor.
events, whichever comes first, as an indicator that the device is running and communicating properly
with the Defense Center. Use the Appliance Heartbeat health status module to track whether the Defense
Center receives heartbeats from managed appliances. If the Defense Center does not detect a heartbeat
from a device, the status classification for this module changes to Critical. That status data feeds into the
health monitor.
To configure Appliance Heartbeat health module settings:
Access:
Admin/Maint
Step 1
In the Health Policy Configuration page, select
Appliance Heartbeat
.
The Health Policy Configuration — Appliance Heartbeat page appears.
Step 2
Select
On
for the
Enabled
option to enable use of the module for health status testing.
Step 3
You have three options:
•
To save your changes to this module and return to the Health Policy page, click
Save Policy and Exit
.
•
To return to the Health Policy page without saving any of your settings for this module, click
Cancel
.
•
To temporarily save your changes to this module and switch to another module’s settings to modify,
select the other module from the list at the left of the page. If you click
select the other module from the list at the left of the page. If you click
Save Policy and Exit
when you
are done, all changes you made will be saved; if you click
Cancel
, you discard all changes.
You must apply the health policy to the appropriate appliances if you want your settings to take effect.
See
See
for more information.
Configuring Automatic Application Bypass Monitoring
License:
Any
Use this module to detect when a managed device is bypassed because it did not respond within the
number of seconds configured as the bypass threshold. If a bypass occurs, this module generates an alert.
That status data feeds into the health monitor.
number of seconds configured as the bypass threshold. If a bypass occurs, this module generates an alert.
That status data feeds into the health monitor.