Setting Up Lights-Out Management - Cisco 750 Getting Started Manual

After you restore an appliance, you must complete an initial setup process:
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If you did not delete the appliance's license and network settings, you can use a computer on your
management network to browse directly to the appliance's web interface to perform the setup. For more
information, see
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If you deleted license and network settings, you must configure the appliance as if it were new, beginning with
configuring it to communicate on your management network. See
Center, page
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If you deregistered the Firepower Management Center from the Cisco Smart Software Manager, register the
appliance to the Cisco Smart Software Manager. Choose System > Licenses > Smart Licenses and click the
register icon.
Note that deleting license and network settings also resets display (console) and LOM settings. After you complete
the initial setup process:
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If you want to use a serial or SOL/LOM connection to access your appliance's console, you should redirect
console output; see "Testing an Inline Bypass Interface Installation" in the Firepower 8000 Series Hardware
Installation Guide.
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If you want to use LOM, you must re-enable the feature as well as enable at least one LOM user; see
LOM and LOM Users, page

Setting Up Lights-Out Management

If you need to restore a Firepower device to factory defaults and do not have physical access to the appliance,
you can use Lights-Out Management (LOM) to perform the restore process. Note that you can use Lights-Out
Management on the default (
The LOM feature allows you to perform a limited set of actions on a Firepower device, using a Serial over LAN
(SOL) connection. With LOM, you use a command line interface on an out-of-band management connection to
perform tasks such as viewing the chassis serial number, or monitoring conditions such as fan speed and
temperature.
Caution: The Firepower Management Center 2000 and 4000 introduced Cisco's Unified Computing System
(UCS) platform into the Firepower System. These models do not support Cisco functionality that uses tools
on the baseboard management controller (BMC), such as the UCS Manager or the Cisco Integrated
Management Controller (CIMC), to make any configuration changes or firmware updates.
The syntax of LOM commands depends on the utility you are using, but LOM commands generally contain the
elements listed in the following table.
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Table 4 LOM Command Syntax
IPMItool
(Linux/Mac)
ipmitool
n/a
-I lanplus
-H IP_address
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) management interface only.
eth0
ipmiutil (Windows)
ipmiutil
-V4
-J3
-N IP_address
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Description
Invokes the IPMI utility.
For ipmiutil only, enables admin privileges for the
LOM session.
Enables encryption for the LOM session.
Specifies the IP address of the management
interface on the appliance.
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