Cisco Identity Services Engine Installation Guide, Release 3.5

Verify the Cisco ISE installation process

Updated: May 28, 2026

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Overview

Provides instructions for verifying the successful installation of Cisco ISE. It covers logging in for the first time, changing the password, checking the installed application version, and monitoring installed application version, and monitoring the status of various Cisco ISE processes to ensure proper operation.

Use this procedure to confirm successful installation.

Procedure

	1.	When the system reboots and the login prompt appears, enter the username you configured during setup. Then press Enter.
	2.	Enter a new password.
	3.	To verify that the application has been installed properly, enter the show application command. Then press Enter. The console displays: `ise/admin# show application <name> <Description> ise Cisco Identity Services Engine` Note The version and date might change for different versions of this release.
	4.	To check the status of the ISE processes, enter the show application status ise command, and press Enter. Note Some MnT services require more than 32 GB RAM and are enabled based on the node profile and available memory. The console displays: ise/admin# show application status ise ISE PROCESS NAME STATE PROCESS ID ----------------------------------------------------------------- Database Listener running 13020 Database Server running 77 PROCESSES ISE Data Grid Service running 55236 Application Server running 19206 Profiler Database running 19749 ISE Elasticsearch running 57532 AD Connector running 65930 M&T Session Database running 15303 M&T Log Processor running 67726 Certificate Authority Service running 43809 EST Service running 66580 SXP Engine Service disabled TC-NAC Service disabled PassiveID WMI Service disabled Pass iveID Syslog Service disabled PassiveID API Service disabled PassiveID Agent Service disabled Pass iveID Endpoint Service disabled Pass iveID SPAN Service disabled DHCP Server (dhcpd) disabled DNS Server (named) disabled ISE Messaging Service running 21836 ISE API Gateway Database Service running 21575 ISE API Gateway Service running 47690 ISE pxGrid Direct Service running 50173 ISE pxGrid Direct Pusher running 56063 Segmentation Policy Service disabled REST Auth Service running 56645 SSE Connector disabled Hermes (pxGrid Cloud Agent) disabled MFA (Duo Sync Service) disabled McTrust (Meraki Sync Service) disabled aciconn (ACI Connection Service) disabled Workload Connector Service disabled ISE Prometheus Service disabled ISE Prometheus Exporter disabled ISE Grafana Service disabled ISE MNT LogAnalytics Elasticsearch running 69229 ISE Kibana Service disabled ISE Native IPSec Service running 21169 Remote Support Authorization Service disabled MFC Profiler running 64432 ISE Prometheus Alertmanager Service disabled Protocols Engine running 69522 ise/admin#

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