Preconfiguring Firepower Managed Devices; Before You Begin; Required Preconfiguration Information - Cisco 7010 Installation Manual

Preconfiguring Firepower Managed Devices

You can preconfigure your Firepower devices at a staging location (a central location to preconfigure or
stage multiple appliances) to be deployed at a target location (any location other than the staging
location).
To preconfigure and deploy an appliance to a target location, perform the following steps:
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Save all packing materials and include all reference material and power cords when repackaging the
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appliance.

Before You Begin

Before preconfiguring the appliance, collect the network settings, licenses, and other pertinent
information for the staging location and the target location.
It can be helpful to create a spreadsheet to manage this information at the staging location and the target
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location.
During the initial setup, you configure your appliance with enough information to connect the appliance
to the network and install the system. Optionally, you can connect a device to a Management Center to
push any updates from the Management Center to the device. You can also enable other features that are
not required for initial setup but can be useful to preconfigure.

Required Preconfiguration Information

At a minimum, you need the following information to preconfigure your appliance:
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install the system on the device at the staging location
optionally, register the device to a Management Center
optionally, push any updates from the managing Management Center to the device
optionally, unregister the device from the Management Center
shut down and ship the appliance to the target location
deploy the appliances in the target locations
the new password (initial setup requires changing the password)
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