Overview of Firewall Threat Defense to Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center Migration

Introduction

This feature enables you to migrate Firewall Threat Defense devices from On-Premises Firewall Management Center to Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center through Security Cloud Control Firewall Management. Migration enables organizations to move device management from on-premises infrastructure to Cisco’s cloud-based management. This migration preserves existing policies, objects, and configurations.

Customer benefits

• Preserves existing policies and configuration

• Imports device-specific configuration, including interfaces, routing, and related settings

• Handles duplicate policy and object names according to defined conflict-resolution rules

• Transfers feature licenses automatically

• Supports high availability pairs and clusters

• Provides 14-day evaluation window before permanent commit

• Allows analytics to remain on-prem or move to cloud

• Provides an intuitive troubleshooting page with status summaries and step‑by‑step progress to pinpoint issues.

• Provides migration reports for validation and audit

User role changes

The user roles of the On-Premises Firewall Management Center are no longer applicable in Security Cloud Control Firewall Management after migration. Your authorization to perform tasks on the migrated device is based on your user role in Security Cloud Control Firewall Management. See the Users topic to understand the On-Premises Firewall Management Center Center and Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center user role mapping.