One of the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) units in HA cluster experienced multiple failures related to hard drive malfunction which required rebuilding unit from scratch. Here are some of the pain points I had to go through to get new appliance back online and clustered. Formatting the drive failed …
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In Part 3 we add FTD cluster to the Firepower Management Center (FMC). Before adding devices to FMC make sure cluster is formed otherwise FMC can not distinguish between Master and Slave. You can refresh on it from Part1 and Part2. Also, since FTD relies on the Cisco Smart Licenses …
Now once Network side is configured we can move on to FTD setup. Deep dive here with CiscoLive presentation on clustering setup. Start with CCL configuration. By default, CCL uses PO 48 so start by adding physical interfaces to it on Firepower Chassis Manager (FCM) > Interfaces tab. Add physical …
Once you go through the initial configuration of 4100 chassis and FTD bootstrap next configuration step is to setup your ASA units as Active/Standby pair or as a Cluster. Clustering on 4100 chassis is new and lets you group multiple ASAs together as a single logical device. Cluster provides all …