Cisco Firepower Services – Change IP and DNS Addresses

KB ID 0001173 

Problem

If you change your internal LAN addresses its easy to re-ip the firewall but what about the FirePOWER module? If you manage your SFR from the ASDM it will tell you what the IP is, but it won’t let you change it?

 

Solution

Change the FirePOWER Module IP Address

Log into the firewall, then open a session with the SFR module. find the physical address of the module (usually eth0, but check).

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Petes-ASA# session sfr
Opening command session with module sfr.
Connected to module sfr. Escape character sequence is 'CTRL-^X'.


GRAINGER-SFR login: admin
Password:{your password}
Last login: Thu Apr  7 08:11:00 UTC 2016 on pts/0

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Cisco Linux OS v5.4.1 (build 12)
Cisco ASA5506 v5.4.1 (build 211)

> show interfaces
--------------------[ outside ]---------------------
Physical Interface        : GigabitEthernet1/1
Type                      : ASA
Security Zone             : None
Status                    : Enabled
Load Balancing Mode       : N/A
---------------------[ inside ]---------------------
Physical Interface        : GigabitEthernet1/2
Type                      : ASA
Security Zone             : None
Status                    : Enabled
Load Balancing Mode       : N/A
---------------------[ cplane ]---------------------
IPv4 Address              : 127.0.2.1
----------------------[ eth0 ]----------------------
Physical Interface        : eth0
Type                      : Management
Status                    : Enabled
MDI/MDIX                  : Auto
MTU                       : 1500
MAC Address               : 00:C8:8B:C1:0E:0C
IPv4 Address              : 192.168.1.100
---------------------[ tunl0 ]----------------------
----------------------------------------------------
>

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To change the IP you need to supply the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and physical interface like so;

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> configure network ipv4 manual 192.168.1.99 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 eth0
Setting IPv4 network configuration.
Network settings changed.

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You can check its worked with a ‘show interfaces command’.

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> show interfaces
--------------------[ outside ]---------------------
Physical Interface        : GigabitEthernet1/1
Type                      : ASA
Security Zone             : None
Status                    : Enabled
Load Balancing Mode       : N/A
---------------------[ inside ]---------------------
Physical Interface        : GigabitEthernet1/2
Type                      : ASA
Security Zone             : None
Status                    : Enabled
Load Balancing Mode       : N/A
---------------------[ cplane ]---------------------
IPv4 Address              : 127.0.2.1
----------------------[ eth0 ]----------------------
Physical Interface        : eth0
Type                      : Management
Status                    : Enabled
MDI/MDIX                  : Auto
MTU                       : 1500
MAC Address               : 00:C8:8B:C1:0E:0C
IPv4 Address              : 192.168.1.99
---------------------[ tunl0 ]----------------------
----------------------------------------------------

>

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Or you can use the ‘show interfaces {interface-name}‘ command.

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> show interfaces eth0
----------------------[ eth0 ]----------------------
Physical Interface        : eth0
Type                      : Management
Status                    : Enabled
MDI/MDIX                  : Auto
MTU                       : 1500
MAC Address               : 00:C8:8B:C1:0E:0C
IPv4 Address              : 192.168.1.99
IPv4 Broadcast            : 192.168.1.255
RX Packets                : 261
RX Errors                 : 0
RX Drops                  : 0
RX Overruns               : 0
RX Frame                  : 0
TX Packets                : 214
TX Errors                 : 0
TX Drops                  : 0
TX Overruns               : 0
TX Carrier                : 0
Collisions                : 0
----------------------------------------------------


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Change the FirePOWER Module IP Address

This is a little more convoluted, there is a command to do this, Note: You can enter multiple servers separated by commas.

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> configure network dns servers 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

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But you also need to restart the nscd daemon in the underlying linux, to do that you need to get into ‘expert mode’.

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> expert

admin@PETES-SFR:~$ sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart

Password:{Enter Your Password}

Stopping nscd…                                                     [  OK  ]

Starting nscd…                                                       [  OK  ]

admin@PETES-SFR:~$

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Windows – Change My Documents Location

KB ID 0000669 

Problem

I like to keep ‘My Documents’, ‘My Pictures, ‘Favorites’, etc, in one location so I can sync and back them up. Like previous versions of Windows, Windows 8 likes to put all that information into C:/Users/{username}.

In Windows 7 you could just go from the Start Menu > {Username} and change the ‘Target’ or location, with Windows 8, there is no Start menu.

Solution

1. Launch Windows Explorer (Windows Key+E) > Navigate to C:\Users\{your-username}.

2. Locate the folder location you with to change > Right click > Properties.

3. Location tab > Change the location to the one you prefer > Apply.

Note: For Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, you will not see the ‘location’ option, you need to right click the folder under ‘This PC’, or from ‘Quick Access”.

 

4. Choose if you want to copy the docs from the existing location to the new location, I’ve just built this so I don’t want to, (if you have already saved work to these locations you might want to).

 

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