topic Re: Cisco FPR-2130 in Network Security

Cisco FPR-2130

uni1389 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:48:50 GMT

Hello All,

i am using Cisco FPR 2130 in HA pair with the following inventory and now wants to upgrade this pair. I have also one more Cisco Secure Firewall 3110 Threat Defense(7.2.8) pair with FMC 7.4.2 . I have some concern about this upgrade

could i upgrade this Cisco FPR 2130 image in one step process to latest recommended Release. any valid reference for this upgrade procedure.

Secondly can I add this FPR 2130 pair to FMC or not for management purposes.

many thanks for your recommendations and tips.

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show version

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 9.9(2)74 <context>
Firepower Extensible Operating System Version 2.3(1.180)
Device Manager Version 7.20(1)

Hardware: FPR-2130, 14854 MB RAM, CPU MIPS 1200 MHz, 1 CPU (12 cores)

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Re: Cisco FPR-2130

Rob Ingram — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:04:32 GMT

@uni1389 you running ASA software on that 2130 hardware? You cannot manage ASA software from FMC, you can reimage the 2130 to use the FTD software which can be managed by FMC. The latest FTD version the 2130 hardware supports is 7.4.X, but you will not be able to upgrade to any newer version 7.6, 7.7 etc as those versions are unsupported on the 2100 series hardware.

https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286312107/type/286306337/release/7.4.2

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/quick_start/reimage/asa-ftd-reimage.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/secure-firewall/upgrade/management-center/740/upgrade-management-center-741/upgrade-threat-defense.html

Re: Cisco FPR-2130

balaji.bandi — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:06:06 GMT

You are running ASA code on the FTD appliance, so you can look for the Upgrade steps based on the version you looking to upgrade, you can use ASDM for this upgrade. ASA can be managed only with ASDM as per your version.

check the matrix :

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/upgrade/asa-upgrade/planning.html

if you have FTD code then you can manage with FMC.

I have also one more Cisco Secure Firewall 3110 Threat Defense(7.2.8) pair with FMC 7.4.2 - if this is HA you need to break the HA and upgrade and re-join back. - if you looking to upgrade this kit.

Re: Cisco FPR-2130

uni1389 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:56:36 GMT

For FTDs would it upgrade first and then upgrade FMC or its vice versa. any recommendations.

Re: Cisco FPR-2130

Rob Ingram — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:04:46 GMT

@uni1389 you would need to reimage the appliance to use the FTD image, as long as you reimage to the same version 7.4.2 or older than the FMC is running, you don't need to upgrade the FMC.

Re: Cisco FPR-2130

balaji.bandi — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:25:07 GMT

Always upgrade FMC for compatibility and then FTD