Cisco Security Manager

Cisco Security Manager provides policy enforcement and rapid troubleshooting of security events, offering summarized reports across the security deployment.

Types of Assets Fetched

This adapter fetches the following types of assets:

• Devices

Parameters

1. Host Name or IP Address (required) - The hostname or IP address of the Cisco Security Manager server.
2. User Name and Password (required) - The credentials for a user account that has the permissions to fetch assets.
3. Verify SSL (required, default: False) - Verify the SSL certificate offered by the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.
   • If enabled, the SSL certificate offered by the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address will be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius. If the SSL certificate can not be validated against the CA database inside of Axonius, the connection will fail with an error.
   • If disabled, the SSL certificate offered by the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address will not be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius.
4. HTTPS Proxy (optional, default: empty) - A proxy to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address.
   • If supplied, Axonius will utilize the proxy when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address.
   • If not supplied, Axonius will connect directly to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address.
5. HTTPS Proxy User Name (optional, default: empty) - The user name to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.
   • If supplied, Axonius will authenticate with this value when connecting to the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.
   • If not supplied, Axonius will not perform authentication when connecting to the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.
6. HTTPS Proxy Password (optional, default: empty) - The password to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.
   • If supplied, Axonius will authenticate with this value when connecting to the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.
   • If not supplied, Axonius will not perform authentication when connecting to the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.
7. For details on the common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.
   
   
   

Advanced Settings

1. Async chunks in parallel (required, default: 50) - Specify the number of parallel requests all connections for this adapter will send to the Cisco Security Center server in parallel at any given point.

APIs

Axonius uses the Cisco Security Manager API Version 2.4.

• The API is licensed. A specific CSM API license must be applied via the CSM Tools > Security Manager Administration > Licensing page. For details, see the Cisco Security Manager 4.17 API Sepcification (Version 2.4) - section 1.11.
• There are a few prerequisites to use and work with the API. For details, see the Cisco Security Manager 4.17 API Sepcification (Version 2.4) - section 1.12.
• It is required to enable the API service from the global administration settings. For details, see the Cisco Security Manager 4.17 API Sepcification (Version 2.4) - section 1.13.

Version Matrix

This adapter has only been tested with the versions marked as supported, but may work with other versions. Please contact Axonius Support if you have a version that is not listed and it is not functioning as expected.