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Connect your Forcepoint NGFW so Myrmex can read its configuration in real time, audit its hardening, review your policies, and help with operations. Myrmex reaches the engine over SSH through a Collector on your network.

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What Myrmex Can Do

Read & troubleshoot

Inspect engine status, interfaces, routing, sessions, and policy state — read-only diagnostics, on demand.

Hardening audit

Run a Security Posture audit against the engine configuration.

Policy review

Review access rules and NAT policies and surface unused or overly broad entries.

Operations support

Help document and — on approval — apply operational changes.

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Before You Start

  • A Collector deployed on a network that can reach the engine’s management IP over SSH. See Deploying the agent.
  • SSH access enabled on the engine (Forcepoint NGFW engines are managed from the Security Management Center).
  • An account Myrmex can use to log in over SSH.

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Step 1 — Create the Access Account on Forcepoint

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Enable SSH on the engine

In the Security Management Center (Management Client), open the engine’s properties and enable SSH access for the node so the Collector can connect.
2

Set the login credentials

Ensure the engine has an account with command-line access and set a strong password for it.
3

Note the credentials

Record the username and password — you’ll enter them in Myrmex. Disable SSH again in the SMC when it is no longer needed.
Restrict SSH on the engine to the Collector’s address so only Myrmex can reach the command line.

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Step 2 — Add the Integration in Myrmex

From the Directory, choose Add Integration → Forcepoint Firewall, then fill in:

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Connect

Click Connect to validate the SSH connection and finish. The engine then appears under Environment → Integrations, and you can start asking the AI about it in the Workspace.