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Management through the FMC

Hannibal — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:12:07 GMT

Hi to the best community of internet

Community, please allow me to ask this combo question I would like to know the answer:

1.) An ASA device without Firepower Services can be managed through the FMC?

2.) A Firepower chassis with ASA image can be managed through the FMC? It would be wonderful to have a Firepower device with an ASA image and to be able to manage it through the FMC, through the ASDM and through the ASA image CLI simultaneously

Kindly

Hannibal L.

Re: Management through the FMC

rcullum — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:19:49 GMT

No, you cannot manage an ASA through FMC:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/firesight-management-center/datasheet-c78-736775.html

If you want centralized management of ASAs, there is/was Cisco Security Manager. Otherwise, use the cli/ASDM to manage your ASA.

By the way, using FMC for FirePower also means you can't use the ASDM equivalent FDM either. With FirePower devices, the graphical management interface is FMC or FDM - can't be both.

Re: Management through the FMC

Rob Ingram — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:20:14 GMT

@Hannibal unfortunately no the FMC cannot manage the ASA image at all. The ASA image can also be managed via the cloud based solution, CDO in addition to ASDM or CLI.

Re: Management through the FMC

Hannibal — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:34:21 GMT

Thank very much Rcullum for your answer, also to Rob answer

You mean that I cannot add my Firepower 2130 with ASA image to be managed through the FMC?? And also I cannot add my ASA device with Firepower services to be managed through the FMC??

Regards

Re: Management through the FMC

Hannibal — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:37:21 GMT

Thank very much Rob for your answer, also to rcullum answer

You mean that I cannot add my Firepower 2130 with ASA image to be managed through the FMC?? And also I cannot add my ASA device with Firepower services to be managed through the FMC??

Regards

Re: Management through the FMC

rcullum — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:40:52 GMT

No, you can't manage your Firepower 2130 with ASA image via FMC. You can manage your FirePower services module on your ASA using FMC, but FMC will only manage that FirePower component. The ASA running ASA code cannot be managed by FMC.

Re: Management through the FMC

Hannibal — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:49:13 GMT

Thank you very much!!!

It seemed too good to me that I could do this..

Kindly

Hannibal