Cisco Firewall :: ASA 5520 CPU Utilization Is 100 %
Sep 27, 2011
We have configured 20 route in ASA 5520. The CPU usage goes to 100 % at the moment when we add a specific route.route inside 10.254.101.0 255. 255. 255.0 10.254.102.254 1.This is the same case when we add this route at the first cli or as the 10th cli or the 21 cli (errespective of the position of cli) There is an another route out of which 20 routes we have configured is route inside 10.254.103.0 255.255.255.0 10.254.102.254 1.The normal case if we dont add the problamatic route , then the CPU utilization is only 2 %.
we have ASA 5520 with IOS 8.0 , when i am trying to add more static routes on the inside interface the CPU utilization is going up. one faced the same issue. I am configuring through the cisco ASDM 6.1(3)f.
I was looking at my CISCO ASA 5520 and i found something really strange
ciscoasa/VPN-context# sh mem detail Used memory: 4259249568 bytes (793%) ------------- ---------------- Total memory: 536870912 bytes (100%)
but when I look at the system context this is what I see
ciscoasa# sh mem Free memory: 170829000 bytes (32%) Used memory: 366041912 bytes (68%) ------------- ---------------- Total memory: 536870912 bytes (100%)
As far as I know the ASA is working good.
Info of the device Hardware: ASA5520, 512 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 4 Celeron 2000 MHz Internal ATA Compact Flash, 256MB BIOS Flash M50FW080 @ 0xffe00000, 1024KB
Device config is shown as follows in application doing the discovery. Cisco ASA 5520. [code] Is there any new updated agent available for Cisco ASA 5520 that contains the oid ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.8 "
We have a Cisco ASA 5520 supporting multiple VPNs - both remote-access and Lan-to-Lan. We would like to monitor the bandwidth utilization of the IPSec Lan-to-Lan tunnels.
We have a VPN concentartor which is having few VPN and doing NAT (Static and PAT) as well. One of our customer has added huge number of serves so we have to do hundreds of static and PAT rules.we have really large number of customers which are growing and do so the NAT in VPN concentartor.
I am bit concern and want to know what will be the best way to check that how my VPN concentartor is doing .As we all know its a GUI i try to check few stuff but couldnt get any info.... the model number is 3015.
I've deployed many Cisco PIX 501 v6.3.3 either as normal firewalling feature and/or with VPN features enabled. I noticed in all my deployments, regardless if it's during peak hours or after office hours, the memory utilization is always consistent 11MB utilized over the total of 16MB(memory default size).
I have Active Standby ASA5550 setup with VPN premium license. A few days back we had a requirement of SSL VPN connection for and we got a temporary from Cisco for same, this license expired and the ASA reverted to it's original license. 3 4 days after this we saw a sudden increase in CPU utilization (upto 90% + -5%) on the ASA during production hours but were not able to figure out the reason, in order to restore the services we failovered the firewall to secondary and everything worked fine. We were suspecting one of the following but there were no logs for any of this
1. The ASA hardware was haivng problem
2. Some client was doing a DoS attack to bring down the ASA (no logs for this as well).
We took a downtime to look further by failovering the ASA back to primary and it worked fine without any issues ruling out the 1st option. We also came across a licesing doc [URL]
Downgrading any license (for example, going from 10 contexts to 2 contexts).
# Note If a temporary license expires, and the permanent license is a downgrade, then you do not need to immediately reload the security appliance; the next time you reload, the permanent license is restored.
As per this doc, sooner or later a restart was required on the ASA. We restarted secondary ASA and everthing was fine but when we restarted the primary ASA by swtiching over to secondary some of the server (not all) in the DMZ stopped working (even ICMP unreachable) and only came back to normal when the primary ASA was restored and working fine (with failover).
The reboot was done by shuting down the physical link between the Core switch and ASA inside individually.
I am not sure what could be the issue that the servers in the DMZ wen unreachable.
I have a remote site customer with a Cisco ASA 5540 running SSLVPN (Anyconnect)(8.03). It currently only serves about 450 SSLVPN clients. Since last friday, they've seen the CPU utilization go up to high 90% while only serving 400+ remote users. I saw some high cpu utilization bugs, but none looked to be relevant. How I can find the root cause of the CPU high utilization?
I am facing high CPU util on my pix 515 E which is in failover mode.During peak hours the util is see rising to 60% where as in off peak hours it is normally12%.
During normal operation the average utilisation was observed to be 30% but suddenly from 2/3 days it is constantly 60% doule the value as earlier. Have gone through the logs and traffic but not able to tarce anything particular
below is the o/p of some command taken for analysis
IOS version 8.0(4) sh cpu usage CPU utilization for 5 seconds = 51%; 1 minute: 61%; 5 minutes: 58% sh cpu usage
I want to run two syslogs, one to Loglogic for compliance and the other to Solarwinds for network administration. Currently the firewall is setup for just the one syslog device. If I add an additional device ie further IP in the config for the Loglogic box will there be any noticeable differences in the performance of the firewall, does affect the cpu utilisation, or memory in any way.
Would like to ask for everyones assistance with regards to the problems we are encountering on our PIX525 firewall. Our encountered problem is as follow."PIX 525 experience sudden high CPU utilization every time a Vulnerability System Scan (third part app) is conducted. Based on the previous experiences, the high CPU utilization where experience when a host on a particular VLAN (214) is being scanned. Whenever we removed the said VLAN (214) in the network the CPU utilization of PIX 525 comes back to normal and all connectivity were resumed."The problem just recently appeared, we are conducting vulnerability system scan before and it goes successfully.
We had two PIXes in our environment and working as a active-failover mode. Its noted in now a days the active PIX memory utilization is 98% and for standby PIX it is 96%. And also in some times we were experiencing packet loss to the ip of active PIX and which reflects in the inside servers access also. During that time the active pix was not accessible via ssh as well as ASDM. We have tried reloading the PIX and changing failover state of the PIX, but it results only a temporary solution. Current memory installed is 128 MB (maximum upgraded), so a upgrade is also not possible. Please see the show command outputs from the PIX. Current Software version is 7.2(4)
sh memory output (PIX 1 - active) Free memory: 4850944 bytes ( 4%) Used memory: 129366784 bytes (96%)
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1) How we can pin point the root cause of this high memory utilization?
2) What might be the reason for the high memory utilization for the standby pix (96%), still the PIX is in idle state?
3) Is it a hardware issue or a memory leak issue, then how can we find out?
4) Is a software upgrade to new version resolves the memory issue?
We have a 6509 core with the below modules running for a long time and the utilization used to be always 10 to 13 percent checking with the supplier it was told to us that due to the firewall modue we have and its normal Now 2 days back i noticed the utilzation had jumped to 90 % and now it happened again
I see that on runnung proc cpu
16407 56.1% 56.5% 55.9% ios-base
16430 35.3% 35.2% 33.9% iprouting.iosproc
the modules present
Mod Ports Card Type Model Serial No.--- ----- -------------------------------------- ------------------ ----------- 1 6 Firewall Module WS-SVC-FWM-1 SAD140901XA 3 16 16 port 1000mb GBIC ethernet
We recently added about 400 users to our network for a total of 1000. Looking at the ASDM we are holding very tight to 75% utilization and we have 256mbs. This is also running IOS 8.2(1). Our firewall recently crashed after a major download was forced through it. This was after only being booted up for about a week. We had reloaded it a week prior after having ran it for about a year without issue. We havent made any changes in the last month other than adding more users to our network.
The infrastructure has PIX515E as the Firewall and few Web Servers and Database Servers inside. Is it possible to retreieve information regarding the bandwidth available at the outside interface of PIX (Internet link utilization ) utilized by each of the nodes seperately? I could use SNMP to get the overall data transfer at the Outside interface of PIX but isit possible to get utilization details of individual nodes ? Is Netflow an option ?
We have an active-active pair of cisco ASA5580-20 with software version 8.4(1)9. There are 8 contexts on it (including admin and system). 1 context is active on Primary node and other 7 are active on Secondary node. User traffic is going through this 1 context (2 interfaces - inside to users, outside to internet) and there are peaks to 1.16M concurrent connections, max bandwidth is 1.25Gbps. CPU usage for this context in peak hours is 63%, but we noticed that when we run "show cpu usage context all" from system it shows that system context is using 25% of CPU and "Total CPU utilization" (form output of show cpu detailed - on system context) is 88% which is bad. In non peak hours - user context use 33.6% CPU, system use 14.5%, total CPU usage is 50.5% So, is it normal this cpu utilization on system context (system on Primary node)?
I have been assigned to find out the nature of the network's bandwidth utilazation. Is there a way to analyze traffic and breakdown the traffic on the ASA5510?
We have several ASA5540s and 5510s (v8.4.1) being managed by CSM (4.1) Every so often several of the ASAs will send SNMP messages to CSM stating very high CPU utilization reached, usually between 150% and 400% - sometimes as high as 4million %.Obviously you can't get greater than 100%.
We were using ASA-5520-K9 with ASA-SSM-AIP-20-K9 but recently found some hardware problem in our running ASA. Now cisco want to replace with ASA-5520-K8.
I'd like to see some REAL LIFE comparisons of ASA firewall throughput (a bit like this one for ISR G2 Routers - [URL].
The reason I ask is that I recently upgraded a firewall from an ASA5505 to an ASA5520 on a small network where the only outside connectivity was a single 10meg Internet circuit with an IPSEC VPN (not landed on the firewall but on a router) to another site.
When I swapped out the firewall the users noticed a big improvement. The firewall is not doing anything out of the ordinary - no IPS or VPN, just standard state full inspection.
We are using the newest release of AD Agent (1.0.0.32.1, built 598). The ASA Firewalls 5520 are having the software release 8.4(3)8 installed.When somebody tries to connect thru the Identity based firewalls from a citrix published desktop environment (PDI) the connection is not possible. Checking the ip-of-user mapping on the firewalls (show user-identity ip-of-user USERNAME) mostly doesn't show the mapping of the USERNAME and the PDI the user is logged in. The user-of-ip mapping of the PDIs IP-address shows mostly other users, which then are used to authenticate the acces thru the firewalls.
What is interesting, that on the AD Agent using "adacfg.exe cache list | find /i "USERNAME"" i can't see the PDIs IP-address neither because it is mapped to another user.Is Citrix Published Desktop environment supported to connect thru Identity based Firewalls? How AD Agent, Domain Controllers and Firewalls are working together? On the firewalls with "show user-identity ad-agent we see, the following:
Why Cisco does use 1645 and 1646 and not 1812 and 1813?The Listening Port is used for what purpose? we tried the AD Agent modes full- download and on-demand with the same effect.
I try to launch a LAND Attack against my firewall ASA 5520. Everything will work fine. But why, I think it should not work. I use a little tool where I can user a spoofed address, with a cluster shell and attack the firewall interface with the source of 127.0.0.1 ore the ip address of the interface as the source and destination. Then I get a cpu load of 89% with only two host. With IP tables I can use kernel processes to prevent this. But I don´t find anything for ASA.
Two different WAN links get connected to the firewall via two routers.(Different ip subnets).I need to get this two wan streams seperatly to the core switches.Core switches sits.Active/Stanby senario. If the Active core goes down Stndby Core will have take over the traffic. My design is correct ,if not what do i need to change. ASA is 5520.
I have a serious problem with my corporate firewall, witch is an ASA 5520, fv 8.3, with 8 +1 interfaces. It suddenly started to crash every 10/20 minutes and rebooting alone.
First of all I checked system resources witch are in a very low usage state. I also checked interfaces errors, but nothing strange come out o from error counters analysis. I tried disabling logging and all the service policy rules configured, but nothing changed.
Nothing changed and firewall continue restarting by itself.
Last logs I received before crash were:
%ASA-4-711004: Task ran for 35 m sec, Process = Dispatch Unit, PC = 84a619e, Call stack = %ASA-4-711004: Task ran for 35 m sec, Process = Dispatch Unit, PC = 84a619e, Call stack = 0x084A619E 0x084A6512 0x084A70E1 0x084A7987 0x084A7AAA 0x08558B9B 0x08558E8A 0x083D3518 0x083CA145 0x080659D1 0x089196D9 0x08919790 0x089FF711 0x08A27468
Here the sh crash info command on module 0, after last reboot: [Code] ......
we are having a firewall asa 5520 .we have connected the management port and inside port to internal network and dmz port to dmz network.now we need to configure tacacs and other management tool on dmz devices through management port. The problem is the management devices tacacs and other are placed in internal network.
I have an ASA 5520 in my company which does all our NAT and Firewall access control. Currently there is a rule in place to allow an incoming connection on port 2222 from a specific ip address to allow access to a web app our developers created. This is a test before the web app is released live. Now the web app can communicate with the specific address and port but the incoming connection on port 2222 isn't getting through. Everything looks great in the firewall but how can I log any hits this ACL takes to identify any potential problems?
Our Local Network is behind the CISCO ASA Firewall.Whenever we are accessing to Client VPN server,it is getting connected but after few Minutes (May be 5/10/30 Min),the sessions are terminating. The same traffic through PIX is no issue , only with ASA Firewall. See the following Error and request you give the possible root cause for this.
2011-04-09 16:15:09 Local4.Info 172.16.1.68 %ASA-6-302016: Tear down UDP connection 87447908 for OUTSIDE:68.22.26.66/4500 to inside:172.16.9.10/4410 duration 0:27:49 bytes 18653
