Setting up ISE

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Hi all,

Ive been given a project to setup ISE internally for our corporate network. With no experience working on ISE, I've got alot of work ahead of me!

I was thinking to sit on the Implementing and Configuring the Cisco Identity Services Engine (SISE) course prior to implementation. Could I expect to gain enough knowledge to get ISE configured and working? Were also implementing a two tier firewall design and plan to have the front (WWW) facing firewall as the VPN endpoint, and ISE handle the authentication...

Any thoughts would be most welcomed!

[George Stefanick · Accepted solution]

What helped me was the trustsec guides which are free on Cisco.com. I also found the ise book, which was a recent release to be very good as well.

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[jrabinow · Accepted solution]

for completeness the recommended ISE book is

Cisco ISE for BYOD and Secure Unified Access

James Heary and Aaron Woland

http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-BYOD-Secure-Unified-Access/dp/1587143259

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Thank you to you both....

So I will arrange to get my hands on the book..

Can anyone say for sure there is enough information to get ISE setup and configured... a consultant quoted around 60K for a turn key solution.. seems excessive to me as we are a small company.

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Anyone know? Is there enough with a course and a handbook to get ISE up and running... our solutions provider is advising it is quite difficult, although thats his job, right?

[RSundstrom]

Hello,

I saw your posting and ordered the book this morning. I have also been given the task of getting ISE up and running on our network. It really can be quite a task. I am hoping the book from James Heary and Aaron Woland helps.

By the way, the book sells for between $42 and $55 dollars (American). That is very inexpensive if it helps the way I am hoping it will. I will try to update this post after I get the book.

[RSundstrom · Accepted solution]

I attended SISE training last year. It is a high level, high speed training week. If you attend the class prepare in advance so you can keep up.

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Thanks Robert.. I now have a copy of the book and plan to sit down and have a thorough read.

I notice there is quite some good ISE tutorials on youtube as well, which may be good for completeness.