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Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower | Change Management Center (FMC) Default IP Address

This article is based on the Cisco Firepower Management Centre (FMC) version 6.3.0 and assumes you have already got the FMC powered on and have a console connection to the appliance. The FMC by default comes up with the management IP address of 192.168.45.45 – Unless you’re already running this network in your environment and […]

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Cisco Firepower

Cisco Firepower | Reset Management Center (FMC) Web and CLI Admin Password

Let’s face it, sometimes we just forget passwords, or something mysterious happens and the password magically changes whilst you’re asleep – yeah, that’s totally what happened here… I booted up my FMCv in the lab I run on my home PC and tried to log into the CLI but.. Login Incorrect ..what? Login Incorrect ..erm […]

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Virtualisation VMware

VMware ESXi | Stopping and Starting a Virtual Machine using SSH & CLI

Sometimes you may not be able to use vSphere to log in and power off/on a virtual machine which has gotten into a bad state, in my case my jump server for my lab environment was online and pinging OK however, it was no longer letting me RDP to it and needed a reboot. Because […]