Register FTD with FMC

Introduction#

The Cisco Firewall Management Center (often referred to as Firepower Management Center, or FMC) is a centralized management platform for Cisco's Firepower next-generation firewalls (NGFWs). It provides a unified console to manage and monitor multiple Cisco Firepower appliances, delivering visibility and control over network security policies, events, and threats.

Cisco Firewall Management Center provides comprehensive, centralized management of Cisco Firepower appliances and security policies. It offers advanced threat detection, deep visibility, policy management, and reporting to enhance network security, streamline firewall management, and reduce operational complexity across large, distributed environments.

Cisco Documentation#

Configure, Verify, and Troubleshoot Firepower Device Registration..

OS Version#

Topology#

Configuration#

Setup FTD

In First initial setup, login using username admin and password Admin123 as default credential. Then press enter 2x to continue.

Enter the new password based on criteria above.

Configure all the requirement below.

after you configure, verify the configuration.

Verify the connectivity between FTD and FMC is reachable

The expert command on Cisco FTD provides advanced access to the underlying Linux operating system, allowing you to perform tasks such as troubleshooting, system diagnostics, and configuration that aren't possible through the regular FTD CLI.

Register FTD to FMC

Next lets register FTD into FMC. Input the command below to identify the management center that will manage this threat defense.

FMC-IP-Address using TLS-1.3-Encrypted communication channel between two devices. Secret-key is registration key one-time use of your choice that you will also specify on the FMC when register FTD. Max key must not exceed 37 characters.

Valid characters include alphanumerical characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) and the hypen (-)

you can verify the command by using:

the registration status is still pending because we need to add this FTD from FMC as well.

Register FMC to FTD

Login in into FMC > Device > Device Management > Add Device

• Choose Registration Key or Serial Number
• Host > Your FTD IP Address
• Display Name > Your FTD Hostname
• Registration Key > Your Secret Key
• Group > None
• Access Control Policy > ACP for FTD

Do the same for other Firewalls

From task list, you can verify discovery status FTD to FMC.

Verification

Now let's verify that FTD-INET-01 and FTD-INET-02 is controlled by the FMC In FTD side, check by using show managers

In FMC side, you can check the status from Device > Device Management.