How to add Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) to Eve-NG

To add Cisco Firepower threat defense FTD to eve-ng use below steps Cisco FTD is one of the best Security product of today, and In CCIE Security v6 Cisco FTD will be used in LAB and Eve-NG has made our task easy, you can prepare/practice complete CCIE Lab in EVE-NG.

To add Cisco Firepower threat defense FTD to eve-ng, will follow the below steps-

1. Download Cisco FTD Image-
Cisco Website
Alternate link
2. Upload the image to EVE-NG using FileZilla or Win SCP
3. Fix the permission and enjoy

if you are downloading from Cisco follow the below steps and the same steps can be used for other Cisco FTD versions. If you are using the alternate link to download the file then just upload the file to qemu and reset the permission.

SSH to EVE and login as root, from cli and create a temporary working directory on the EVE’s root:

mkdir /root/tmp/

Upload the downloaded Cisco_Firepower_Threat_Defense_Virtual-6.2.0-362.qcow2 image to the /root/tmp/ using  FileZilla or WinSCP.

Create a new image folder:

mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/firepower6-FTD-6.2.0-362

From cli go to::

cd /root/tmp/

Rename and move image to target directory:

mv Cisco_Firepower_Threat_Defense_Virtual-6.2.0-362.qcow2 /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/firepower6-FTD-6.2.0-362/hda.qcow2

Remove tmp source directory

rm -rf /root/tmp

Go To your EVE-NG add FTD Node and start it

WARNING ! These images are very heavy, and to run you will need servers with a minimum 8 Core CPUs!!!

After Installation obtains FirePower demo licenses from Cisco using your CCO and installed management center MAC address.

Tips: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/firesight-management-center-virtual-appliance/118645-configure-firesight-00.html