View Services Page Information

The Services page displays a list of services that CDO provides. Selecting the FMC tab lists the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center that is linked to the CDO account and all the on-prem management centers onboarded to CDO. Note that the devices managed by these on-prem management centers are listed in the Inventory page. The Services page also lists the secure connectors under the Secure Connectors tab.

You can choose FMC tab and onboard an on-prem management center by clicking the blue plus icon (), and perform device actions using the options in the right pane. You can also see device information such as version, number of devices being managed by the management center, device type, and the synchronization status of the device. Clicking on the managed devices icon takes you to the Inventory page, where devices managed by the selected on-prem management center are filtered automatically and displayed. The Services page also allows you to select more than one on-prem management center at a time for you to perform actions on a group of management centers all at once. Note that you cannot select any on-prem management center while the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center is selected. To add a new secure connector or perform actions on existing secure connectors, choose the Secure Connectors tab and click .

For your cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center, the Services page displays the following information:

  • If you do not have a cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center deployed on your tenant, click Request FMC.

  • The number of Secure Firewall Threat Defense devices deployed on the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center.

  • Status of the connection between CDO and the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center page.

  • The last heartbeat of the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center. This represents the last time the status of the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center itself and the number of devices it manages were synchronized with the table on this page.

  • The hostname of the selected cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center.

Choose Cloud-Delivered FMC and using the links in the Actions, Management, or Settings pane, you open the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center user interface to perform the configuration tasks associated with the link you clicked.

After opening the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center page, click the blue question mark button and select Page-level Help to learn more about the page you are on and what further action you can take.

Update the Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center Device Count and Status

Choose Cloud-Delivered FMC and in the Actions pane, click Check for Changes. The Device Count and Status information in the table will be updated with the information available the last time this page and the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center were synchronized. Synchronization happens every 10 minutes.

Support to Open CDO and Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center Applications on Different Tabs

As you configure threat defense devices or objects in the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center, you can open the appropriate configuration pages in additional browser tabs to work simultaneously in the CDO and the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center portals without logging off. For example, you can create an object on the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center and simultaneously monitor event logs on CDO that are generated from the security policies.

This feature is available for all CDO links that navigate to the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center portal. To open the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center portal in a new tab:

On the CDO portal, press and hold the Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac) button, then click the corresponding link.

Note

A single click opens the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center page in the same tab.

Here are some examples of opening the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center portal page in a new tab:

  • Choose Tools & Services > Firewall Management Center and select Cloud-Delivered FMC.

    In the right pane, press and hold the Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac) button, and then click the page you want to access.

  • Choose Objects > Other FTD Objects.

  • Click the search icon in the top-right corner of the CDO page and enter the search strings in the search field that appears.

    From the search result, press and hold the Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac) button, and then click the arrow icon.

  • Choose Dashboard > Quick Actions.

    Press and hold the Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac) button, and then click Manage FTD Policies or Manage FTD Objects.

Note

When you switch to a new CDO tenant, the corresponding cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center portal already opened in a new tab logs out.

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