https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-activation/m-p/3852863#M27323 <P>It appears you are asking about licenses for the ASAs' Firepower service modules. Those are added either in Firepower Management Center (FMC = new name for the old Sourcefire "Defense Center" product) or, if you manage the modules locally, via ASDM.</P> <P>ASDM management didn't used to be an option for ASA 5545-X thus the (probably very old) instructions you have don't mention it. It was added as of release 6.0 and your firewalls' service modules may be running version 5.x.</P> <P>FMC is generally recommended as it is much more full-featured than ASDM-based management of the Firepower modules. It is a separately licensed and installed product however.</P> Thu, 09 May 2019 04:57:05 GMT Marvin Rhoads 2019-05-09T04:57:05Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-activation/m-p/3852713#M27321 <P>Hello Experts,&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>I am in the middle of task that required to activate ASA 5545 Firewalls. I have received the Licence files from cisco. In the email it was written that will required cisco Defence Center for to upload the licence file to firewalls.&nbsp; Please advice me how can i download the defense center (correct me if i am wrong)or Is Defense Center is a part of an&nbsp; internal Software that runs within the firewall ?.<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left" image-alt="Screen Shot 2019-05-08 at 22.58.43.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.cisco.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/36412i6689FD9A75EFE182/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screen Shot 2019-05-08 at 22.58.43.png" alt="Screen Shot 2019-05-08 at 22.58.43.png" /></span></SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 08 May 2019 21:17:59 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-activation/m-p/3852713#M27321 LANSK 2019-05-08T21:17:59Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-activation/m-p/3852863#M27323 <P>It appears you are asking about licenses for the ASAs' Firepower service modules. Those are added either in Firepower Management Center (FMC = new name for the old Sourcefire "Defense Center" product) or, if you manage the modules locally, via ASDM.</P> <P>ASDM management didn't used to be an option for ASA 5545-X thus the (probably very old) instructions you have don't mention it. It was added as of release 6.0 and your firewalls' service modules may be running version 5.x.</P> <P>FMC is generally recommended as it is much more full-featured than ASDM-based management of the Firepower modules. It is a separately licensed and installed product however.</P> Thu, 09 May 2019 04:57:05 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-activation/m-p/3852863#M27323 Marvin Rhoads 2019-05-09T04:57:05Z