Firepower Management Center Licenses

[mautez_mah]

I have cisco Firepower 2100 
I will purchase below licenses 
VPN , Web Filtering,  Threat, Malware, 
last one is FMC ( I have only two FP ) so is it required , is there any feature will provide ,is it a different appliance 
what is a difference between FMC FDM FTD 

[Eric R. Jones]

The FMC is used to manage the Firepower 2100 series devices. The FDM is the
default management UI for the same models. You can use the FMC or the FDM
but not both. Each has pros and cons but if you spent the money on the FMC
and you have multiple devices then I would deploy the FMC. The FTD is the
2100 device. I don't mean to be condescending with the explanations. We have
4 2130's and 2 2110 devices split across 2 sites. We use the FMC virtual
platform to manage all of them. One thing to remember with the FMC, this is
a con for me, you won't see real time traffic/logs from the FTD's. The FMC
collects it and shows you the information but it's delayed. Displaying the
log information



Eric R. Jones

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