ASA with FirePOWER and Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center

[fabflorent]

Hello,

1- Can you help me defend the solution Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center. My company is planning to acquire two ASA5515-FPWR (for failover) to deploy at Internet Edge. I suggest the acquisition in addition of Cisco FMC Appliance. But I have to give the advantages, knowing that we can also manage ASA FirePOWER services with ASDM!

  2- Can you explain me the licensing process for FirePOWER Services. Is the license ordering process different when you use Cisco FCM to manage FirePOWER on ASA ?

[Jetsy Mathew]

Hello ,

If you have the choice between management with ASDM and through FPMC (which can also run virtually on ESXi), choose FPMC as that is much more powerful then the management through ASDM. When you manage via ASDM , you can see only real time connection events . Using an FMC you can get the full view of connection events and based on the database settings you can decide how much events you want to store. 

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/firesight-management-center/index.html

Licensing Information as follows:-

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/60/configuration/guide/fpmc-config-guide-v60/Licensing_the_Firepower_System.html

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/roadmap/firepower-licenseroadmap.html

Rate if the post helps you.

Regards

Jetsy