Adding Firepower FTD and FMC to EVE NG

Walkthrough of how to add Cisco Firepower Threat defence (FTD) and Firepower Management Centre to EVE-NG and connect them together ready for centralised management.

[@ponytrap12]

thanks JP, I used a network cloud object of type "bridge" for the management network and just connected all mgmt interfaces to that

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

You’re welcome. Yes any cloud object of the same type would work 👍

[@tambahako628]

Was hard to hear but great video, learnt a lot!

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

Thanks for watching. I plan on investing in a new mic soon 👍

[@ciscoboy-devon1732]

Good day JP, hope you are doing well. Just wanted to check-in before I do a deep dive, will this work on the Community Edition of EVE-NG?

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

Hi Devon. No, this is for the pro edition. Differences are that there is no Nat on community and that you can’t do warm connections, I.e you have to restart each time.

[@ciscoboy-devon1732]

@@jpsnetworkingchannel3430 Thanks for the update makes sense! :)

[@leatilemoseki1449]

Thank you for the great video, kindly share images

[@rakeshkala7042]

what's the basic laptop hardware configuration we need to setup a similar lab (FMC/FTD)

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

Hi Rakesh, that very much depends on the version of fmc/ftd. Anything newer than 6.6 requires much higher resources. You could get away with maybe 4GB ram and 2 CPU’s for anything earlier than that.

[@rakeshkala7042]

@@jpsnetworkingchannel3430 really appreciated, will i5 with 32 gb ram will work for versions 6.6 or later?

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

@@rakeshkala7042 it will work, just may be slow to manage from the fmc. Might not to be bad , it depends how much you’ll be using it in the lab.

[@jacksmith5208]

Nice

[@vornsavan3342]

can you please provide latest FTD & FMC image for eve-ng

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

Hi Vorn, these are the same images that you would use for FTDv and FMCv. They can be downloaded from the Cisco site if you have a CCO account. They come with a 90 day free license.

[@eliekabunda8132]

Hello JP
Can you share your Virtual FMCv, FTDv and NEXUSv with me? I don't have a licence CCO account
Thank you for your reply.

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

I cannot sorry, you will need a valid CCO license in order to get these.

[@khalid82atd]

audio wasn't good
it would be better if you write down IP schema
if you keep chopping topology over and over its hard to follow as you know to drop a link and reconnect you need to power off and wait for 30 mins till you can do something on it. thanks for sharing though

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

Hi Muhammad, thanks for watching. If you watch some of my more recent videos you’ll see I’ve invested in a new mic and camera to add to the quality of the videos. The link issue is due to me running the pro version of eve-ng which lets you connect/disconnect links live. I will be switching to gns3 for some upcoming studying I’m doing so will be setting up the devices in there also and will be making videos in that.

[@khalid82atd]

@@jpsnetworkingchannel3430 Thanks for the reply mate. I will be looking forward for lab with FTD+ISE+AAA windows server together in a lab

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

@@khalid82atd Check out my HQ lab series videos. I build a network from scratch that includes FTD, FMC and ISE