McAfee NS3500 Quick Start Manual

Revision B

McAfee Network Security Platform

(NS3500 Quick Start Guide)

This quick start guide explains how to quickly set up and activate your McAfee® Network Security Platform NS3500
Sensor in inline mode. This model has a throughput of 100 Mbps and 200 Mbps depending on the license
purchased.

All product documentation referenced in this quick start guide is found on the McAfee Documentation and McAfee

Service Portal.

The NS3500 Sensor model

Figure 1 Sensor front panel

Power LED

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Status LED

2

Hard drive LED

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Figure 2 Sensor rear panel

Power supply (12V DC IN)

1

Power switch

2

Speed LED for each ethernet port

4

Link LED for each ethernet port

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1

RJ-45 Console port (1)

3

USB ports (2)

4

RJ-45 10/100/1000 Management port (MGMT) (1)

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RJ-45 10/100/1000 Response port (R1) (1)

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RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Monitoring ports (4)

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1 Verify the contents in the box

The following accessories are shipped in the NS3500 Sensor crate:

• Sensor

• 12V DC adapter with power cord

• Printed Quick Start Guide

• RJ45 to DB9 console cable

• Set of rack mounting ears with screws

• Set of rubber feet (4x)

The set of rubber feet can be used if the Sensor is placed in a desktop setting.

2 Verify the hardware and software requirements

Make sure to meet the following hardware requirements. For more information, see the McAfee Network
Security Platform Installation Guide.

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The following are the system requirements for a Manager and Central Manager server:

Minimum required Recommended

Operating
system

Any of the following:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise Edition,
English operating system, SP1 (64-bit) (Full Installation)

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise Edition,
Japanese operating system, SP1 (64-bit) (Full Installation)

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition (Server with a
GUI) English operating system

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition (Server with a
GUI) Japanese operating system

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition (Server with a
GUI) English operating system

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition (Server with a
GUI) Japanese operating system

• Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition (Server with a GUI)
English operating system

• Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition (Server with a GUI)
Japanese operating system

• Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition (Server with a
GUI) English operating system

Windows Server 2016
Standard Edition operating
system

• Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition (Server with a
GUI) Japanese operating system

Only X64 architecture is supported.

Memory 8 GB

Supports up to 3 million alerts in Solr.

>16 GB

Supports up to 10
million alerts in
Solr.

CPU Server model processor such as Intel Xeon Same

Disk space 100 GB 300 GB or more

Network 100 Mbps card 1000 Mbps card

Monitor 32-bit color, 1440 x 900 display setting 1440 x 900 (or above)

The following are the system requirements for client systems connecting to the Manager application.

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Minimum Recommended

Operating
system

RAM 2 GB 4 GB

CPU 1.5 GHz processor 1.5 GHz or faster

Browser

• Windows 7, English or Japanese

• Windows 8, English or Japanese

• Windows 8.1, English or Japanese

• Windows 10, English or Japanese

The display language of the Manager client must be
same as that of the Manager server operating
system.

• Internet Explorer 10, 11

• Mozilla Firefox

• Google Chrome (App mode in Windows 8 is not
supported)

To avoid the certicate mismatch error and security
warning, add the Manager web certicate to the
trusted certicate list.

Windows 10, English or
Japanese

• Internet Explorer 11

• Mozilla Firefox 20.0 or
later

• Google Chrome 24.0 or
later

Install the following software:

• Sensor image

• Manager image

• Signature set

3 Install the Sensor on the rack

Follow this procedure to install the Sensor on the rack.

Attach the ear to the Sensor using three countersink screws.

a

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Secure the Sensor into the rack using four truss head screws.

b

4 Connect the Management and Console ports

On the back panel of the NS3500 Sensors, plug a Category 5e Ethernet cable in the Management port

a

(labeled MGMT).

Plug the other end of the cable into the network device connected to your Manager server.

b

On the back panel of the NS3500 Sensor, plug the RJ45 end of the console cable into the console port

c

(labeled CONSOLE).

Connect the other end of the Console port cable directly to a COM port of the PC or terminal server you

d

are using to congure the Sensor (for example, a PC running correctly congured Windows
Hyperterminal software). You must directly connect to the console for initial conguration, you cannot
congure the Sensor remotely.

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