Restore a backup to a temporary FMC

[Chess Norris]

Does anyone know if the FMC Management address changed after restoring from a backup  or if there's a way to prevent this from happen?

I have a customer that want to test to restore a production FMC config before upgrading . They have a LAB FMC on an isolated VLAN to test this, but they don't have direct access to the ESXi server were the LAB FMC is installed, so if the IP changed, they can't access it.

Thanks

/Chess

[Rob Ingram · Accepted solution]

Hi @Chess Norris 

From the cisco docs:-

"Note that restoring an FMC does not change the management IP address. You must set that manually on the replacement — just make sure you disconnect the old appliance from the network before you do."

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/670/configuration/guide/fpmc-config-guide-v67/backup_and_restore.html

[Chess Norris]

Thanks for the quick reply, Rob.

Best regards

/Chess

[Chess Norris]

Actually, restoring from a backup indeed changed the IP address, at least on our virtual FMC 6.4.  

Needed to access the FMC CLI from ESXi console and change the IP back manually.

/Chess