Managing Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Devices with Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center

This chapter elaborates information on how to enable cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center on a Security Cloud Control tenant and about the supported hardware and software specifications.

Enable Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center on Your Security Cloud Control Tenant

If you want to manage your Secure Firewall Threat Defense devices, you can enable the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center on your tenant. You need to have an admin or a super admin user role to perform this task.

Procedure

Step 1

From the Security Cloud Control menu, click Administration > Integrations > Firewall Management Center and click Enable Cloud-Delivered FMC.

Step 2

Security Cloud Control starts provisioning a cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center instance in the background; it typically takes 15 to 30 minutes for this to be complete. You can track the provisioning progress on the Status column of Cloud-Delivered FMC.

After the provisioning is complete, the status changes to Active. In addition, you get a Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center is Ready notification on the Security Cloud Control notifications panel and on the applications on which you have configured incoming webhooks. See Notification Settings for more information.

Note

 

After you receive the Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center is Ready notification, ensure that you log out of and log in back to your tenant once, to see the Cloud-Delivered FMC right pane options, such as Actions, Management, and System.

You can then onboard your threat defense devices to the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center and manage them.

Hardware and Software Support

Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center supports these Secure Firewall Threat Defense software versions when they are installed on any supported hardware or virtual device:

  • Verion 7.0.3 or later 7.0.x versions.

  • Version 7.2 and later versions.


Note

Software Version 7.1 is _not_ supported.

See Firepower Threat Defense Support Specifics for more information.

Security Cloud Control Platform Maintenance Schedule

Security Cloud Control updates its platform every week with new features and quality improvements. Updates are made during a 3 hour period according to this schedule:

Day of the Week

Time of Day

(24-hour time, UTC)

Thursday

09:00 UTC - 12:00 UTC

During this maintenance period, you can still access your tenant and if you have a cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center or Multicloud Defense Controller, you can access those portals as well. Additionally, the devices you have onboarded to Security Cloud Control continue to enforce their security policies.


Note

  • We advise against using Security Cloud Control to deploy configuration changes on the devices it manages during maintenance periods.

  • If there is any issue that stops Security Cloud Control from communicating, we address that failure on all affected tenants as quickly as possible, even if it is outside the maintenance window.