Associate an Elastic IP address with your NGFW instance for the example deployment

An elastic IP address is a static, public IP address that can be allocated by AWS. Elastic IP addresses can be associated with NGFW instances to allow initial contact with the Management Server to occur over the Internet.

Before you begin

Launch the Forcepoint NGFW instance.

The NGFW Engine makes initial contact to the Management Server when the NGFW Engine starts up. If the Elastic IP address is not yet available when the NGFW Engine tries to connect to the Management Server, the initial contact fails and you must make initial contact manually. See Log on to the engine using SSH.

Steps

  1. Select VPC > Elastic IPs > Allocate New Address.
  2. Select the created address, then select Actions > Associate address and associate the address with the public IP address of the NGFW Engine (eni-afa029d3).
  3. Make a note of the public IP address of the NGFW Engine.


Next steps

Disable source and destination checks.