In this blog Ill reveal to you some of my favorite tips, tricks and secrets found inside ASDM.If you havent dealt with it before, ASDM is a free configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting management tool that comes with the ASA.In a nutshell, ASDM will manage all the features of the ASA appliance including FW, IPS and VPN.
Unlike its big brother Cisco Security Manager (CSM), ASDM is made to configure a standalone ASA one at a time. CSM is the tool you would use to manage and share policy across multiple ASAs, routers, and IPS appliances. You can download ASDM from cisco.com or from your ASA itself. You can then run it inside a browser or download the ASDM launcher so it runs as its own application on your PC. The ASDM launcher works for both Windows and MAC OSX (requires ASDM version 6.4.5 or later). Once launched it will look like the below image. First, to get the MAC launcher working you must install it directly from your ASA using a web browser. Currently, there is not a downloadable.dmg file on cisco.com, only a.msi file for windows. To enable it, check the box and click on the link it provides. This will take you to cisco.com where you will need to download the ASDM demo.msi package. Once installed, ASDM can then be used in a offline demo mode on a windows or mac computer. Demo mode provides you with several configuration types to choose from so you can make it pretend to be an ASA FW or a ASA FW with IPS or a ASA with SSLVPN, etc. All in all ASDM demo mode gives you the experience of configuring and monitoring a live ASA. Which brings me to another ASDM secret, demo mode is designed for windows but will also work on MACs. This is not something supported by Cisco or found in there docs. It is more of a hack, but a useful one for those (like me) that dont like to run fusion on their MACs. Here is how you get it to work on a MAC running Lion: -First, On your MAC install the ASDM launcher by connecting to an ASA via a web browser and clicking install launcher. Now click show package contents -A new finder window will open. Navigate to ApplicationsASDMCisco ASDM-IDM.appContentsResourcesJavademo -Finally, copy the contents of the windows demo folder into this folder. Cisco Asdm Launcher Mac Launcher DemoNow Mac launcher demo should work great Now that we have ASDM installed here are some quick tips. Cisco Asdm Launcher Update Wizard IsCisco Asdm Launcher Software Update WizardThis software update wizard is much quicker and error free than going to ciscos website downloading the images then uploading them to the ASA and configuring it to use them. This can all now be done with about 4 clicks right from ASDM. Packet tracer lets you model how the ASA will react to certain traffic types moving through it.
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