Adding Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (vFTD) to Firepower Management Center (FMC)

April 2, 2017 / Balaji Bandi / 1 Comment

Adding  Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (vFTD) to Firepower Management Center (FMC)

This document shows how you can register vFTD to FMC to manage Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (vFTD)

Register a Firepower Threat Defense Virtual to a Firepower Management Center

Because virtual devices do not have web interfaces, you must use the CLI to register a virtual device to a Cisco Firepower Management Center, which can be physical or virtual. It is easiest to register a device to its Firepower Management Center during the initial setup process, because you are already logged into the device’s CLI.

ssh to your FTD.

> configure manager add 192.168.1.69  bbftd

192.168.1.69  – is my FMC Address – change the IP according to your setup.

bbftd – my_reg_key

Now Login to FMC

https://fmc ip

username : admin

password : Admin123

Before we deploy enable smart license which give you 90days free trail.

Once you enable smart license you see below as output.

Now Lets add FTD to FMC

Devices–> Device Management

click Add –> Device

click register

Once it register successfully.

You can also very in vFTD console.

FTD configuration Device and interface as below :

Now we have register FTD to FMC,

I will cover next section, how to configure FTD and FMC Features.

Happy Labbing !