In order to manage other Trellix Series appliances, the CM 9600 simply needs a connection that allows it to communicate with the managed appliances. This connection can be practically anywhere in the network. The diagram below illustrates the typical deployment of managed Trellix Series appliances and a CM connected to a typical network device.
Note
For information about configuring your Central Management to fail over to another Central Management Series appliance, see the Central Management High Availability Guide of your software release.
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Prerequisites
Before connecting the CM 9600. to your network, ensure that your network device provides 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet output.
Cabling
To connect your CM 9600 to your network:
Connect one end of an Ethernet cable to the ether1 port.
Connect the other end of the cable to the network device.