Cisco 1600 - Preconfiguring Management Centers

2. Shut down and ship the appliance to the target location.
3. Deploy the appliance at the target location.
Save all packing materials and include all reference material and power cords when repackaging the appliance.
Note
Required Preconfiguration Information
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
location.
Note
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:
• The time zone (if you choose to manually set the time for your appliances)
• The remote storage location for automatic backups
• The LOM IP address to enable LOM
Cisco Firepower Management Center 1600, 2600, and 4600 Getting Started Guide
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Firepower Management Center 1600, 2600, and 4600 Getting Started Guide
Required Preconfiguration Information