Firepower Next generation IPS Question

ahmad82pkn — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:17:53 GMT

Hi , i am unable to understand fully, that do i really need to buy Firesight Management center with Firepower Appliance lets say 7000?

i mean why do i need to buy 2 equipment ? cant firepower appliances have its on GUI for all monitoring and reporting and rules purpose?

What i thought was to just buy NGIPS 7000 appliances. but now it looks to be additional must cost of Firesight Management center as well.

can any one clarify this please?

Firesight Management Center

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:08:14 GMT

Firesight Management Center is required for all FirePOWER instances - hardware appliance-, virtual appliance- or ASA module-based.

That's the way it (prior Sourcefire Defense Center) was designed and built by Sourcefire prior to the acquisition by Cisco and that's how it is today. I doubt we will see that aspect change as it's pretty fundamental to the product architecture.

One small change is that if you only have the ASA module-based FirePOWER services there are special SKUs for a low cost FMC for managing either 2 or 5 modules. So, as that demonstrates, licensing is up to Cisco to determine.

Feel free to convey your thoughts on the matter to your Cisco or partner account manager. I have! 🙂

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Firepower Next generation IPS Question

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