Cisco Cisco FirePOWER Appliance 7010 Guía De Instalación

      

  Initial Device Setup

Firepower 7000 Series Getting Started Guide

Next Steps

After you complete the initial setup process for an appliance and verify its success, Cisco recommends that you 
complete various administrative tasks that make your deployment easier to manage. You should also complete any 
tasks you skipped during the initial setup, such as device registration and licensing. For detailed information on 
any the tasks described in the following sections, as well as information on how you can begin to configure your 
deployment, see the Firepower Management Center Configuration Guide.

If you want to use a serial or LOM/SOL connection to access your appliance’s console, you should redirect 

console output; see Testing an Inline Bypass Interface Installation in the Firepower Management Center 
Configuration Guide. If you want to use LOM specifically, you must enable the feature as well as enable at least 
one LOM user; see 

.

After you complete the initial setup, the only user on the system is the 

admin

 user, which has the Administrator 

role and access. Users with that role have full menu and configuration access to the system, including via the 
shell or CLI. Cisco recommends that you limit the use of the 

admin

 account (and the Administrator role) for 

security and auditing reasons.

Creating a separate account for each person who will use the system allows your organization not only to audit 
actions and changes made by each user, but also to limit each person’s associated user access role or roles. 
This is especially important on the Firepower Management Center, where you perform most of your 
configuration and analysis tasks. For example, an analyst needs access to event data to analyze the security 
of your network, but may not require access to administrative functions for the deployment. 

The system includes ten predefined user roles designed for a variety of administrators and analysts. You can 
also create custom user roles with specialized access privileges. 

By default, all appliances have an initial system policy applied. The system policy governs settings that are 
likely to be similar for multiple appliances in a deployment, such as mail relay host preferences and time 
synchronization settings. Cisco recommends that you use the Firepower Management Center to apply the 
same system policy to itself and all the devices it manages.

By default, the Firepower Management Center also has a health policy applied. A health policy, as part of the 
health monitoring feature, provides the criteria for the system continuously monitoring the performance of the 
appliances in your deployment. Cisco recommends that you use the Firepower Management Center to apply 
a health policy to all the devices it manages. 

You should update the system software on your appliances before you begin any deployment. Cisco 
recommends that all the appliances in your deployment run the most recent version of the Firepower System. 
If you are using them in your deployment, you should also install the latest intrusion rule updates, VDB, and 
GeoDB.

Redirecting Console Output

By default, Firepower devices direct initialization status, or init, messages to the VGA port. If you want to use the 
physical serial port or SOL to access the console, Cisco recommends you redirect console output to the serial port 
after you complete the initial setup.