Device Connectivity States

You can view the connectivity states of the devices onboarded in your Security Cloud Control tenant. This topic helps you understand the various connectivity states. On the Inventory page, the Connectivity column displays the device connectivity states.

When the device connectivity state is 'Online' it means that the device is powered on and connected to Security Cloud Control. The other states described in the table below usually occur when the device is running into problems for various reasons. The table provides the method to recover from such problems. It may be that there is more than one problem causing the connection failure. When you attempt to reconnect, Security Cloud Control will prompt you to fix all of these problems first before performing the reconnect.

Device Connectivity State

Possible Reasons

Resolution

Online

Device is powered on and connected to Security Cloud Control.

NA

Offline

Device is powered down or lost network connectivity.

Check whether the device is offline.

Insufficient licenses

Device doesn't have sufficient licenses.

Troubleshoot Insufficient Licenses

Invalid credentials

Username and password combination used by Security Cloud Control to connect to the device is incorrect.

Troubleshoot Invalid Credentials

Onboarding Device onboarding is initiated but is not complete. Check you device's connectivity and ensure you complete the device registration.

Pending Setup

Device registration has failed.

Troubleshoot Onboarding a Device to the Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center Using the CLI Registration Key

New Certificate Detected

Certificate on the device has changed. If the device uses a self-signed certificate, then this could have happened due to the device being power cycled.

Troubleshoot New Certificate Issues

Device Unregistered

FDM-managed device has been unregistered from Cloud via FDM.

Troubleshoot Device Unregistered

Claim Error

Security Cloud Control fails to claim the FDM-managed device. Some of the possible reasons could be that an invalid serial number has been entered or the device serial number has already been claimed.

Troubleshoot Claim Errors

Onboarding Error

Security Cloud Control may have lost connectivity with the device when onboarding it.

Troubleshoot Onboarding Error

Provisioning Error

FDM-managed device initial provisioning has failed.

Troubleshoot Provisioning Error

Unreachable

  • Device is powered down.

  • IP address has changed on the device.

  • Device has been deleted from Cisco Cloud.

Troubleshoot Unreachable Connection State