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Cisco Firepower Management Center 1600, 2600, and 4600 Getting Started Guide
Preconfigure FMCs
You can preconfigure your FMC at a staging location (a central location to preconfigure or stage multiple
appliances) to be deployed at a target location (any locatiaon other than the staging location).
To preconfigure and deploy an appliance to a target location, perform the following steps:
1. Install the system on the device at the staging location.
2. Shut down and ship the appliance to the target location.
3. Deploy the appliance at the target location.
Note
Save all packing materials and include all reference material and power cords when repackaging the appliance.
Required Preconfiguration Information
Before preconfiguring the appliance, collect the network settings, licenses, and other pertinent information
for the staging location and the target location.
Note
It can be helpful to create a spreadsheet to manage this information at the staging location and the target
location.
During the initial setup, you configure your appliance with enough information to connect the appliance to
the network and install the system.
At a minimum, you need the following information to preconfigure your appliance:
• New password (initial setup requires changing the password)
• Hostname of the appliance
• Domain name of the appliance
• IP management address of the appliance
• Network mask of the appliance at the target location
• Default gateway of the appliance at the target location
• IP address of the DNS server at the staging location, or, if accessible, the target location
• IP address of the NTP server at the staging location, or, if accessible, the target location
Optional Preconfiguration Information
You can change some default configurations, including the following:
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