FirePOWER Agent – Real-Time Status ‘Unavailable’
Jul02

FirePOWER Agent – Real-Time Status ‘Unavailable’

KB ID 0001323 D Problem I was deploying a Cisco FirePOWER user agent last week, but once setup, the agent reported that the Real-Time status for SOME of the domain controllers was permanently ‘Unavailable’. Now I know you have to be patient with these things so I went and had a coffee. Still it refused to ‘go green’. Solution I addition to all the other rights and firewall rules that you normally have to check....

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Cisco FirePOWER is Blocking an Application
Feb27

Cisco FirePOWER is Blocking an Application

KB ID 0001286  Problem A few weeks ago I installed a 5525-X firewall for a client, and set it up as follows; ASA Setup FirePOWER Services (for ASDM) And all was well, then a week later I got an email… One of our teachers is doing a project with MATHS and ICT involving bitcoin. Basically, he has something called BITCOIN CORE WALLET installed and it used to work with the old Firewall. I’ve installed it on my work laptop and taken...

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Deploy Cisco FirePOWER Management Center (Appliance)
Nov30

Deploy Cisco FirePOWER Management Center (Appliance)

KB ID 0001263 Problem You have been able to manage your firewalls Internal SFR module for  while using the ASDM Setup FirePOWER Services (for ASDM) For most people that’s fine, but if you have a lot of FirePOWER devices to manage that does not scale well. In those cases you should use theFMC  (FirePOWER Management Center). Here ‘Im going to use the Vmware virtual appliance, (at time of writing there is no Hyper-V version)....

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Cisco SFR Session – Cannot Exit To Command Line
Nov22

Cisco SFR Session – Cannot Exit To Command Line

KB ID 0001259 Problem This tripped me up once before, and I didn’t document it! Normally if you have a console session open with your FirePOWER Module, (that you opened with a ‘session sfr’ command), then you can just quit, and exit back to the firewall by typing ‘exit’, like so; ciscoasa# session sfr Opening command session with module sfr. Connected to module sfr. Escape character sequence is...

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Cisco – Cannot Connect to the ASA FirePOWER Module
May10

Cisco – Cannot Connect to the ASA FirePOWER Module

KB ID 0001182 Problem There’s an alarming amount of people who have contacted me about this error; Cannot connect the the ASA FirePOWER module. Cannot connect the the ASA FirePOWER module.. Check that it is correctly configured and on the network. It’s also possible that the management address is being translated by NAT. Please verify the IP address/Hostname and port. Note: If you have just updated or re-imaged the SFR...

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Cisco Add FirePOWER Module to FirePOWER Management Center
Apr25

Cisco Add FirePOWER Module to FirePOWER Management Center

KB ID 0001178  Problem If you only have one FirePOWER service module you can now manage it from the ASDM; ASA 5505-X / 5508-X Setup FirePOWER Services (for ASDM) But if you have got more than one, and you can manage them centrally with the FirePOWER Management Center, (formally SourceFIRE Defence Center).  WARNING:  If you are going to use FMC DON’T register your licences in the ASDM, they all need to be registered in the FMC.  ...

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