Gaining access to the user interface
If you are deploying your firewall on a cloud provider like Azure or AWS, take a look at Chapter 15, Cloud-Based Firewall Deployment.
When taking a new device out of the box or setting up a VM on a local hypervisor, such as VMware ESXi, Fusion, NSX, Hyper-V, KVM, and so on, one of the first things that needs to be accomplished is making it possible to gain access to the user interface, be it a web interface or a console connection. We’ll go over the most common ways of gaining this access in this section.
One of the first things you may need to do is to connect a console cable to gain access to the command-line interface (CLI). Older models only come with an RJ45 console port, so for those, you will need a standard DB9-to-RJ45 console cable, optionally patched through a serial-to-USB cable so a modern laptop is able to interface with the port. The pinout for the DB9 should be as follows:
1 - Empty - Data Carrier Detect...
