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Preventing connections to a cloud Central Management System appliance

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Use the commands in this topic to prevent a standalone Trellix Helix-enabled appliance from connecting to a Trellix Helix-enabled cloud Central Management System appliance.

To prevent the connection:
  1. Log into the standalone appliance.

  2. Go to CLI configuration mode:

    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal                  
  3. Prevent the connection:

    hostname (config) # no cmc client enable                  
  4. Verify your change:

    hostname (config) # show cmc client                  
  5. Save your change:

    hostname (config) # write memory                  

Example

The following example prevents the nx-05 appliance from connecting to a cloud Central Management System appliance.

nx-05 (config) # no cmc client enable
nx-05 (config) # show cmc client
CMC client enabled: no
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