topic Re: Resore a backup to a temporary FMC in Network Security

Restore a backup to a temporary FMC

Chess Norris — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:26:44 GMT

Does anyone know if the FMC Management address changed after restoring from a backup or if there's a way to prevent this from happen?

I have a customer that want to test to restore a production FMC config before upgrading . They have a LAB FMC on an isolated VLAN to test this, but they don't have direct access to the ESXi server were the LAB FMC is installed, so if the IP changed, they can't access it.

Thanks

/Chess

Re: Resore a backup to a temporary FMC

Rob Ingram — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:28:01 GMT

Hi @Chess Norris

From the cisco docs:-

"Note that restoring an FMC does not change the management IP address. You must set that manually on the replacement — just make sure you disconnect the old appliance from the network before you do."

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/670/configuration/guide/fpmc-config-guide-v67/backup_and_restore.html

Re: Resore a backup to a temporary FMC

Chess Norris — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:37:43 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply, Rob.

Best regards

/Chess

Re: Restore a backup to a temporary FMC

Chess Norris — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:27:25 GMT

Actually, restoring from a backup indeed changed the IP address, at least on our virtual FMC 6.4.

Needed to access the FMC CLI from ESXi console and change the IP back manually.

/Chess