Overview
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The mid-range Secure Firewall 3100 supports your evolving world. It makes hybrid work and zero trust practical, with the flexibility to ensure strong return on investment. The Secure Firewall 3100 is a threat-focused security appliance that delivers business resiliency and superior threat defense. It offers outstanding performance for multiple firewall use cases, even when advanced threat functions are enabled. These performance capabilities are enabled by a modern CPU architecture coupled with purpose-built hardware that optimizes firewall, cryptographic, and threat inspection functions. The Secure Firewall 3100 supports use cases from the Internet edge to the data center and private cloud. The Secure Firewall 3100 supports multi-instance and clustering to deliver increased performance that can scale to meet your needs as your organization grows.
Configure an ASA using ASDM.
The Secure Firewall 3100 runs in appliance mode only; it does not support platform mode, which uses FXOS as the chassis manager. Appliance mode lets you configure all settings in the ASA. Only advanced troubleshooting commands are available from the FXOS CLI.
Cable the firewall
Learn how to cable the Secure Firewall 3100 so you can complete the initial hardware setup and prepare required ports for network connectivity before configuration.
Power on the firewall
How to power on the Secure Firewall 3100 and confirm it started successfully by checking the front-panel LEDs for power and system status.
Which application is installed: Firewall Threat Defense or ASA?
Learn how to determine whether your Secure Firewall 3100 is running Firewall Threat Defense or ASA by connecting to the console port and identifying the CLI prompt.
Access the ASA CLI
How to access the ASA CLI on the Secure Firewall 3100 for basic configuration and troubleshooting, including entering privileged EXEC mode and global configuration mode.
Obtain licenses
Learn how to obtain Secure Firewall 3100 licenses in Cisco Smart Software Manager and Cisco Commerce Workspace, including identifying required license types and the license PIDs used to order additional entitlements.