Adding sensors to a Central Management appliance

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You can use the Central Management Web UI or CLI to add sensors to an on-premises Central Management appliance for management.

Prerequisites
  • Operator or Admin access

Adding Sensors to the Central Management Appliance Using the Web UI

Use the Appliances > Sensors page to add appliances that will function as sensors to a Central Management appliance.

Field

Description

Display name

The name of the appliance. (The name will be displayed in the show cmc appliances command output.)

Field

Description

IP Address

The IPv4 or IPv6 address of the management interface on the appliance.

Username

A user account on the appliance with the admin role.

Password

The password for the user account specified in the Username field.

Appliance host key

(Required if host-key authentication is enabled) The RSA v2 host key for the appliance. For details, see the FireEye System Security Guide.

Comment

(Optional) A comment that describes the appliance.