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Firepower 7000 and 8000 Series Installation Guide
Chapter 8 Restoring a Firepower System Appliance to Factory Defaults
Setting Up Lights-Out Management
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To enable LOM on Firepower 8000 Series devices, you must enable remote access using the
Physical
Serial Port
before you can specify the LOM IP address, netmask, and default gateway (or use DHCP
to have these values automatically assigned).
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On Firepower 7000 Series devices, select
Lights Out Management
to configure LOM settings.
7000 Series devices do not support LOM and physical serial access at the same time.
Note
The LOM IP address must be different from the management interface IP address of the appliance.
To enable LOM capabilities for a Firepower System user:
Step 1
Select
System > User Management
, then either edit an existing user to add LOM permissions, or create a
new user that you will use for LOM access to the appliance.
Step 2
On the User Configuration page, enable the
Administrator
role if it is not already enabled.
Step 3
Enable the
Allow Lights-Out Management Access
check box and save your changes.
Installing an IPMI Utility
You use a third-party IPMI utility on your computer to create an SOL connection to the appliance.
If your computer is running Linux or Mac OS, use IPMItool. Although IPMItool is standard with many
Linux distributions, you must install IPMItool on a Mac. First, confirm that your Mac has Apple's xCode
developer tools package installed. Also, make sure the optional components for command line
development are installed ("UNIX Development” and "System Tools" in newer versions, or "Command
Line Support" in older versions). Finally, install MacPorts and IPMItool. For more information, use your
favorite search engine or see these sites:
https://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/
http://www.macports.org/
For Windows environments, use ipmiutil, which you must compile yourself. If you do not have access
to a compiler, you can use ipmiutil itself to compile. For more information, use your favorite search
engine or see this site:
http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/