How to shut down IPS Appliance (Censors) by Firepower Management Centre 750 GUI or CLI

[Tang-Suan Tan]

Hi all,

I tried to find the way to shut down the Appliance by GUI or CLI but cannot got it in FMC 750.

Attached some possible ways for your reference but they do not have shut down appliance option. In Greenshot 20201029091449.jpg, it shows only management centre. In Greenshot 20201029091511.jpg, it has no Power Off option.

May I have your advise as soon as possible as today afternoon, I have to shutdown them. Thanks!

regards,

tangsuan

[Marvin Rhoads]

For an FMC hardware appliance the system shutdown command shown in the Greenshot 20201029091449.jpg will shutdown the Firepower Management Center application completely. It will not power off the system. You can further shutdown the OS by going into export mode in the cli and issue the "halt" command (must be run as root superuser). At that point it is safe to simply have on-site personnel to power off the appliance.

The other option is to use the CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Controller) interface. (Assuming you have that interface connected and accessible) From CIMC we have the option to power off the server. Here's what it looks like (taken from an FMC 1000 appliance):