Cisco Firewall :: ASA 5540 Upgrade From 7.1 To 8.4
Jul 16, 2012
i need to upgrade ASA 5540 from 7.1 to 8.4 for secure connect feature of Cisco Jabber Configuration. Support forum guides that, i need to follow upgrade path from 7.1 --> 7.2 --> 8.0 --> 8.2 -->8.4 and also do a memory upgrade from 1GB to 2GB.
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I need to use this feature for only three or maximum four users in company then would i really need to do memory upgrade? or can i go with 1GB memory?also how i can get the prices of part number "ASA5540-MEM-2GB=" at cisco.com?
ASA-ISB-HQ# sh version
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 7.1(2)
Device Manager Version 5.1(2)
Just upped our external ASA-5540 pair to 8.4(1), and now one of our nat's is busted.
Here's the lowdown:
Our public IP for our IronPorts ends in .167. That IP is natted to a VIP on our ACE, which load balances to the IronPorts.
The outside interface of the ASA uses .162, which has been the pat for all outbound traffic for a few years... except for the subnet that houses the IronPorts. Due to reverse lookup, that subnet uses the .167 IP address for all outbound traffic.
After the code upgrade, the nat won't work. No email sent or received. Nothing but Deny's on the ASA with flags reading either "SYN" or "RST". IE: Apr 27 12:56:11 10.22.151.41 local5.crit %ASA-2-106001: Inbound TCP connection denied from 69.25.174.17/36917 to 207.236.211.167/25 flags SYN on interface outside
If I return the subnet pat back to the outside interface, then inbound traffic works fine, though reverse lookup fails and anyone running a reasonable spam filter won't send to us.
I have two Cisco ASA 5540, these ASA running ver 7.2. and used mainly as VPN gateways.My question is simple, Apart from the extra AnyConnect client functionality and the higher encryption, is there any specific security benefits (related to the VPN use) for upgrading to ver. 8.x ?
We want to run ASA 8.4.x on an old ASA5540. We need to upgrade its memory to 2 GB with the following memory upgrade: ASA5540-MEM-2GB=
I suspect that we will completely remove the existing 1 GB of memory and replace it with 2 GB. If this is the case, can I use this 1 GB of memory removed from the ASA5540 and put it in a ASA5510 instead of buying a ASA5510-MEM-1GB= for the ASA5510?
We have a old Cisco ASA5540 firewall running on firmware version 7.0 and also a Firewall Service Module (FSWM) running on firmware version 2.3.
My question is if I would like to upgrade the Cisco ASA5540 firmware version to 7.1 above and the FWSM firewall version to 3.1 above, any requirement on the memory size or hardware to perform the firmware upgrade activity, do I require to do some memory or hardware module upgrade activty first before the firmware upgrade ?
Any restriction, shortcoming and pre-requites to do before the firmware upgrade activity ?
I have 2 ASA 5540 in our network. I want to upgrade it from 8.0.4 to 8.4.3. I want assistance in the configuration because I know that there is a change a configuration while migrating from 8.0.4 to 8.4.3.Is there any tool available on Internet that facilitates me to convert the current configuration computable to 8.4.3.
I am encountering some problems setting up my new polycom hdx 8000 behind ASA 5540?I have opened reuired ports through the firewall ( incoming and outgoing). I have enabled inspection h323 on ASA and enabled the option NAT is 323 compatible on Polycom.
3230-3243 tcp h323 tcp h323 udp 3230-3285 udp
Here is the problem.I get connected to the call but I cannot the remote site cannot see and hear me.But I can see and hear them.
I Have Cisco 5540 with AIP-SSM-40, recently i config AIP-SSM-40 to capture all traffic from all interface any to any with promiscous mode and if card fail traffic still flow throuh asa, but after that i can't login to cisco ASDM, the error is "Un Able To Launch Device Manager From xx.xx.xx.xx"
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 have to use GNS3 for simulate ASA5540.but it does not work. I've installed latest GNS3(0.8.3.1 all in one) in Win7 32bit environment, and used IOS file is asa842-k8.bin.but i can't unpack it properly. it said "Couldn't find any ZIP header in asa842-k8.bin".
I have two ASA 5540 working in Active/Standby mode. After I've upgraded them to 8.2.3 ver. I have the following issue: once a day presently active device arbitary reloadI have no err in show version and in syslogs:11:15:50 ASA : %ASA-6-302020: Built inbound ICMP connection for faddr 10.10.0.36/512 gaddr 10.0.0.16/0 laddr 1011:15:58 ASA : %ASA-1-104001: (Primary) Switching to ACTIVE - HELLO not heard from mate.
I have 2 ASA 5540's that I want to run in HA A/F. The active ASA has an IPS module running. I no longer need this and would rather remove it than purchase another module for the spare. What is the process to do this safely? After removal will the HA wizard recognize that the module was removed or do I have to update the software?
Q1. I would like to confirm like how many total of contexts do I have by default when I purchase the ASA 5540 ? are they two contexts aside from the admin context or two contexts including the admin context?
Q2. can I configure the default box with High Availability using the default contexts?
I have an ASA 5540 , how can i block softwares like TeamViewer , VPN Adapters like Hamachi and all. Also , I have tried URL Blocking but i suppose ASA supports only HTTP url block and not HTTPS.
I am in the process of rebuilding our ASA 5540 pair. We are currently on 8.2 code with this set of firewalls and I was going to upgrade it to 8.4 being I have a couple of other firewalls running this code currently and am familiar with it. That said, I saw that the 9.x code is out there now. Are there any major advantages or caveats with the 9.0 code? I plan to use this firewall with SSL VPN and RSA Secure ID integration for the next 2-3 years at least. Any quick pointers on these two code versions and on upgrading to 9 or staying with 8.4 line.
I have the following topology, WCCP is configurated on ASA, inside interface, lan users and websense machine are located on the same VLAN of my catalyst 3750G?I want to filter traffic on port 80 (www) to the users on the LAN side debug on the ASA show me that comunication between that device and Websense is OK, there is Here_I_Am and I_See_You packets
WCCP-PKT:D00: Sending I_See_You packet to WEBSENSE_PROXY w/ rcv_id 0000015B WCCP-PKT:D00: Received valid Here_I_Am packet from WEBSENSE_PROXY w/rcv_id 0000015B WCCP-PKT:D00: Sending I_See_You packet to WEBSENSE_PROXY w/ rcv_id 0000015C WCCP-PKT:D00: Received valid Here_I_Am packet from WEBSENSE_PROXY w/rcv_id 0000015C WCCP-PKT:D00: Sending I_See_You packet to WEBSENSE_PROXY w/ rcv_id 0000015D
From show WCCP i saw that WCCP engine and ASA were detected
FW# sh wccp Global WCCP information: Router information: Router Identifier: 200.X.X.X Protocol Version: 2.0
I'm having a throughput problem with a new ASA 5540 running version 8.2 (1). When trying to access a database server using tcp port 1521 (sqlnet) it is about 10 to 20 times slower than when the database is not behind the firewall. We've been running the same software on a database behind an ASA 5520 running version 8.0 (3) with no problems for years. When I check the cpu usage on the 5540 at the ASDM home page, it is rarely above 20% and never above 30% while this is being tested. I tried testing ftp throughput over the same interface and it was normal with ~320 Mbps average rate transferring a 500 MB file.
We have a VPN established between the above devices (I don't have more info on the Juniper as it's a client site) The Juniper initiates the VPN and all is well, tunnel is up all ok but approx every 45 minutes the VPN drops.
the tunnel parameters are set to keep it alive for 8 hours but that doesn't work.
We have an ASA-5540 (8.4(1)) The inside interface faces a few multicast receivers. The outside interface faces the multicast source.All of the ASA multicast documents I've download describe very simple network designs, such as a single segment on the ASA inside.Our PC hosts that will be multicast receivers are a couple router hops away from the ASA inside interface. I'm not sure what the best way is to configure multicast on the ASA.Should I configure the ASA with PIM routing and a static RP address (plus the ACL to allow the multicast source traffic in) since the receiver hosts are a couple hops away? I think I understand the IGMP joins are for a local PIM router, so configuring as a Stub Multicast router wouldn't work? The two Cisco routers between the host and the inside ASA interface already have PIM, a static RP address, and IP PIM Spare-Mode configured.
We have configured our ASA5540 in active-standby failover.We are observing that current active session count is twice of session count before configuring HA. Earlier average active session was 50000 and now after HA it is around 100000. Failover configuration of both firewall are as follows
failover failover lan unit primary failover lan interface FOLan GigabitEthernet1/0 failover polltime unit 15 holdtime 45 failover replication http failover link StateLink GigabitEthernet1/1 failover interface ip FOLan 10.3.3.1 255.255.255.0 standby 10.3.3.2
I have two ASA 5540s, ver 8.4 configured in Active/Standby failover.I am also using the redundant interface feature for my Inside interface. Gig0/0 is the active primary and Gig0/1 is standby.
I will activate failover monitoring of the Inside interface using the monitor inside command.
My question concerns the failover monitoring of the redundant interface. If the gig0/0 connection were to fail would the Gig0/1 interface become Active, AND simultaneously result in a full device failover?
Or, does Gig0/1 of the Inside interface redundant pair simply become active and not change the Inside interface device failover state? Thus NOT resulting in a device failover.
I have 2 cisco asa 5540's configured in active/standby mode. I need to change the hostname and domain name as per our standards. Does changing the hostname has any impact on the traffic flow?
