About the Device Management Page

The Devices > Device Management page provides you with range of information and options.

  • View By—View devices based on group, licenses, model, version, or access control policy.

  • Device State—View devices based on state (Error, Warning, etc.). You can click on a state icon to view the devices belonging to it. The number of devices belonging to the states are provided within brackets.

  • Search Device—Search for a device by device name, host name, or IP address.

  • Add—Add devices and other manageable components.

  • Columns—Click the column head to sort by that column.

    • Name

    • Model

    • Version

    • Chassis—For supported models, click Manage to bring up the integrated Chassis Manager. For the Firepower 4100/9300, the link cross-launches the Firewall Chassis Manager.

    • Licenses

    • Access Control Policy—Click on the link in the Access Control Policy column to view the policy that is deployed to the device.

    • Auto-Rollback—Shows whether auto-rollback of the configuration is enabled (auto rollback on icon) or disabled auto rollback off icon) if the deployment causes the management connection to go down. See Edit Deployment Settings.

  • Edit—For each device, use the Edit (edit icon) icon to edit the device settings.

    You can also just click on the device name or IP address.

  • More—For each device, click the More (more icon) icon to execute other actions:

    • Packet Tracer—To navigate to the packet tracer page for examining policy configuration on the device by injecting a model packet into the system.

    • Packet Capture—To navigate to the packet capture page, where, you can view the verdicts and actions the system takes while processing a packet.

    • Revert Upgrade—To revert the upgrade and configuration changes that were made after the last upgrade. This action results in restoring the device to the version that was before the upgrade.

    • Health Monitor—To navigate to the device's health monitoring page.

    • Troubleshoot Files—Generate troubleshooting files, where you can choose the type of data to be included in the report.

    • Generate Template from Device—Generate a new device template from a registered device. The new template has the same configuration as the device from which it is generated. You can generate a new device template from standalone and HA devices. However, if you generate a template from HA devices, the new template will not contain the failover configurations.