Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Virtual Getting Started Guide

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Prerequisites

Updated: February 5, 2026

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Overview

How to prepare your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment to deploy Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Virtual. Review account, Cisco Smart Account, licensing, management interface, and public IP requirements. For compatibility details, see the Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Compatibility Guide.

  • Create an OCI account at https://www.oracle.com/cloud/.

  • A Cisco Smart Account. You can create one at Cisco Software Central (https://software.cisco.com/).

    • Configure all license entitlements for the security services from the Firewall Management Center.

    • See “Licensing the System” in the Firewall Management Center Configuration Guide for more information about how to manage licenses.

  • Interface requirements:

    • Management interface — One used to connect the Firewall Threat Defense device to the Firewall Management Center.

  • Communications paths:

    • Public IP for administrative access to the Firewall Management Center Virtual.

  • For the Firewall Management Center Virtual and System compatibility, see Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Compatibility Guide.