FirePOWER – ‘DataPlaneInterface0’ is not receiving and packets
KB ID 0001344 Problem While replacing a FirePOWER Management console, I got this error; Interface Status Interface ‘DataPlaneInterface0’ is not receiving any packets Solution A look a the health monitor showed me the same thing; Firstly, common sense dictates, that this is a live firewall and traffic is actually flowing though it? In my case the traffic simply needed to be ‘sent though’ the module. Execute...
Cisco FirePOWER User Agent – Use With the FirePOWER Management Console
KB ID 0001179 Problem FirePOWER Management Center, will give you a wealth of information on traffic/threats etc. Usually it will tell you what IP the offenders are on, but if you want to know what a USER is doing, then that means you have to look though logs see who had what IP, at what time etc. So you can install the FirePOWER User Agent on a machine, (this can be a client machine, though I usually put it on a member server). You...
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...
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)....
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...