Cisco ISE: 1. Bootstrap process – VM installation

Technology: Network Security
Area: Access and Identity Management
Vendor: Cisco
Software: 2.1
Platform: ISE Virtual Appliance

Tutorial shows the Cisco ISE bootstrap and installation process for ISE 2.1. Before you start make sure that you have all the necessary information required during bootstrap:

• Addressing:
  • IP, Mask, Gateway for deployments
  • Name Servers, NTP Servers, Time Zone

• Naming convention:
  • Hostnames, Deployment naming
  • DNS – corporate rules and ISE services
  • How users will see Guest URL?
  • How sponsors will access the sponsor portal (URL)?

• Certificates
  • Consider certificates functions (Admin, EAP, Portals, pxGRID)
  • Is it allowde to use Wildcard Certificates?

If you know the answers and details are noted, you can start the installation process.

• ISE Bootstrap – ADE-OS configuration:
  • Menu selection

• Menu selection – choosing install VM Appliance (VMware ESXi)

• Bootstrap – installation process in progress 1

• Bootstrap – installation process in progress 2

• Bootstrap – installation process : setup

• Bootstrap – installation process : CLI ADE-OS configuration details

• Bootstrap – installation process : CLI ADE-OS configuration details – continued

• Bootstrap – after installation use show run command to see ADE OS configuration

• Bootstrap – after installation use: node1/admin#show application status ise command to verify services that are running. Take a note that untill Application Server is not in running state the GUI is not ready to interact yet

• After installation is completed you can login to Web GUI.

• ISE GUI Access
  • Application service must be running, access https://ise_ip_address_or_name
  • Use first login set during bootstrap installation process
  • Checking ISE App and ADE-OS version