Cisco FTD

Info on FTD & FMC. AKA FirePower which they're now trying to passoff as a “Secure Firewall”.

An Opinion:

• 2020-09-10:‎ FTD is not ready for prime time. Cisco is way behind on the NGFW curve and FTD is not a step in the right direction. My gripes are primarily that everything about it feels half-baked. Just… everything. I'm busy at the moment but needed to express my dissatisfaction. There are much better firewalls out there, even the ASA feels like an improvement over FTD and ASA sucks. The CLI is not optional.
• 2023-08-26: It's gotten better, good enough that I'm happy to replace ASAs with FTD. Still rather have PAN or Fortinet but…

• Devices > Device Management
• Click the Troubleshooting icon, 🛠 (except it's a wrench and screwdriver) 😒
• Click the Advanced Troubleshooting button
• The Generate Troubleshooting Files button is probably for show tech. 🤷‍♂️

The only way to configure the pager length is via some add-on thing in the GUI. WTF?

• How to Configure the Pager Lines in FTD

• Work with Firepower Threat Defense Captures and Packet Tracer

• Reset the Password of the Admin User on a Cisco Firepower System

tl;dr - On FMC it's sudo passwd admin in expert mode.

Is now hidden under…

system support diagnostic-cli