Cisco Firewall :: ASA 5550 - How To Change The Context Size
Nov 6, 2011
I'm having a problem with a context, I have two CISCO ASA 5550 (failover) and also we have the CISCO CSM to monitoring it, but since some weeks is showing a memory usage of 100% but then it drops until reach zero and then again the graphic goes up. This is the second time that the graphic shows this
I also check this on the CLI and i'ts fine because is showing the real percent, so my question here is why is showing this kind of behavior, I mean it was working fine before.
In the other hand I checked the secondary device and this is showing a 99% of used memory, but as the other one this graphic doesn't drop
I also checked via CLI and it says that it had the 99% memory used , Is there a way that i can put more memory on the context or what do you suggest that I can check on my firewalls.
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Dec 9, 2012
I need your support for upgrading the Security context license on 5550, at present we have 5 Security context license installed in ASA but we want it to increased till 10 conctexts. I want to understand if we need to get addtional 5 Security context license or 10.
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Aug 12, 2012
I have a Failover pair of ASA5550's running ASDM 6.2(5) and ASA 8.2(2). Originally they were setup with 2 context's and an admin context but one of the contexts has now been removed. I would like to now migrate to single mode before I go about patching them to the latest software.
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Sep 26, 2011
I have ASA 5550, i create 2 context in my ASA 5550. I create a NAT in context A and context B. But when i create NAT in context B i get another i get error message like this "static overlaps with global in another context". I have checked there is same nat translation in context A and context B. My question is : is same nat translation configuration not allowed in context A and context B"
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Jun 13, 2012
I have a Fail over pair of ASA5550's running ASDM 6.2(5) and ASA 8.2(2). Originally they were setup with 2 context's and an admin context but one of the contexts has now been removed. I would like to now migrate to single mode before I go about patching them to the latest software.
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Nov 22, 2011
I've been using packet-tracer for some time on and off with mixed results.
I'm running a multi context firewall with over 10 of the contexts sharing the same outside interface / network. All interfaces obviously have valid, unique IPs and also unique MAC addresses as mac-address auto is enabled in the system context.
This is an ASA 5550 running 8.3(2.10) interim so includes the fix for the well known packet-tracer classication failed bug.
So in theory, with firewall contexts on a shared interface the ASA should use the firewall MAC address to classify incoming traffic to the correct firewall and as far as I am aware, only fall back on using NAT to classify if the interface MACs are the same. In reality on my platform this doesn't seem to be happening and the classifier is using NAT to determine the destination context. I'm seeing this with live traffic (i.e. not generated by packet-tracer) in logs and can prove it by disabling certain NAT rules (there is some overlap with the IP addressing behind each firewall).
My question regarding packet tracer is this - in the above scenario with a shared outside interface, does packet tracer ALWAYS use NAT to determine the destination context? Or does packet tracer look up the MAC address of the ingress interface according to what context you are running packet tracer from? It appears that packet-tracer is using NAT in my case which could be just symptomatic of the potential bug I've described above rather than by design.
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Oct 12, 2011
I am switching a switch connecting to the ASA5550 tomorrow. My current switch is using fiber connecting to the ASA. The new one only support copper. If I switch between fiber to copper on the ASA (change media-type command on interface) will it cause a down time? I have VPN tunnel on the ASA and don't want the session to reset.
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Jul 1, 2012
On my production environment I have a firewall with already two contexts defined (15% of CPU used) and I want to add a new one.
This context is going to use the same interfaces as the others contexts. When I will enable the context, can I have some sort of repercussion on these two context ?
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Jan 13, 2013
I have two ASA 5510 in an Active/Active failover configuration; On the first ASA I have a license for five security contexts, on the second one I have the default two. On the pair I configured seven security contexts and everything works as expected; so far so good. Let's suppose now that the first ASA (the one with the license for 5 contexts) goes up in smoke; all the contexts migrate to the surviving firewall and life is still good. But what happens if, for some reason, I need to reboot the second ASA before the first one is repaired? My guess is that it will come up with just its own license for two contexts and that I will not be able to operate all my virtual firewalls.
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Apr 8, 2013
I was asked to performe upgrade from acs 5.3 to 5.4 (vm), but i noticed that someone installed it on 80gb partition and there is 500gb as one of the requriments in upgrade and install procedure. What is strange to me is that "dir disk:" command shows such an output: 5165345067 bytes available.And under ESX i see 80gb partition. Anyway, is there any way to extend partition size to 500gb? Can I just change it under ESX? Is there any procedure to take under ACS console?
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Apr 13, 2011
I was wondering about command of Linkset subcommand at ITP7613.I have been using the Cisco7613 chassis for the ITP(SIGTRAN) service.
However, i know that the "tx-queue-depth" command is used for sctp multihoming buffersize that between primary and secondary path at the Link sub-command mode. but i can't adjust the changeover buffersize(retrieval buffer) that between link and another link at the Linkset subcommand mode.
It's above my comprehension.
My guess is that related to "plan-capacity-rcvd" command. it's right?I want to know command that adjust the buffersize of Link changeover.
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Aug 9, 2012
First is it possible to change the length that new files will be created? Right now it creates 1 minute chunks which becomes a pain in the butt to manage. I would really like to set the length to 10min or even 60min chunks as one minute is just to short. I use the camera for constant recording and do not plan on puttin in a computer to record to due to logistics.
Secondly, is there software that will manage these files? That is pull down from the cameras SD and archive then allow you to simply play from any location via mouse or time picker?
I have used professional security systems in the past and know that this is just an entry home consumer camera but was hoping it had a little more functionality, as it stands the built in SD recording is almost useless without some sort of management software.
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May 7, 2013
Is it possible to use 1 or 2 of the 4 gigabit ethernet ports from one ACE straight into the other ACE for redundancy? So ACE_01 gig0/4 to ACE_02 gig0/4.If so, is it a case of just having the layer 3 config instead of trunking etc..Also - is it possible to create a context within the same vlan as the Admin context?
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Sep 25, 2012
We've had this firewall in place for years, and there haven't been changes to it in the past few months. Last week, however, we started having problems accessing one of our networks through the PIX, and after working with Microsoft, we determined it was an MTU issue. The maximum sized packet to the PIX and through the PIX is 1020 bytes, and it doesn't matter if the packets are sourced from a server or the PIX itself. From the server, we can ping 1500 byte packets to the core switch with no issues. All interfaces are set for 1500 byte.
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Jul 5, 2012
I have a ASA5540 firewall set-up with an interface MTU of 1500.
I suspect that we are receiving packets with a larger MTU but have not found an easy way of confirming this. Any command that can be run on the firewall to display the MTU packet size being received on an interface?
We are also running Solar Winds so could query an OID if such a variable exists.
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Oct 25, 2011
What are the new features added or going to be available on the 8.5 release on the ASA. Would this release "finally" support VPN on multi security context mode.
By the sounds of things looks like every other major vendor supports this feature except Cisco.
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Mar 3, 2011
i two 5550 firewall set up for redundance purpose . in failover we define two different ip add one for primary and one for secondary .interface Ethernet0/0 nameif outside security-level 0 ip address xxxx.0.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 standby xxxx.0.0.2!interface Ethernet1/0 nameif inside security-level 100 ip address 10.0.0.12 255.255.255.0 standby 10.0.0.11.default gateway for host will be 10.0.0.12 (primary fw address) however in case of failover , the secondary fw will be up with ip address that was assigned for primary .in this case the secondary ip add 10.0.0.11 is actually nerver used? similarly do i need to have two public ip address for outside (one for primary and one for secondary ) ? or in case if primary fails the secondary comes onlie and take the ip of primary fw . hence i only need to purchase just one ip address.
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Feb 22, 2013
I have cisco 5550 Firewall, one messages appear in syslog server from Firewall, (warning) i want to stop this message from appearing syslog traps.
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Apr 17, 2011
I am having two ASA 5550 firewall running in active/standby mode. With in last two months our secondary firewall got down automatically 3 times. Firewall is running with IOS version 7.1.2. how to proceed further troubleshooting because there are not any logs on firewall.
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Jul 3, 2012
I am currently working with ASA 5585 with several contexts. What is the percentage of the CPU used per context. I already have the opportunity to do it for the whole ASA (context admin) using the SNMP mib CISCO-PROCES but, unfortunalty, this mib doesn't allow us to know the percentage of used CPU per context.
I was able to know the number of core used per context but not the percentage of the CPU used.
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Jan 14, 2013
We have a pair of cisco Asa 5520 currently running multiple context mode. We wish to change to single context mode for following reasonWe will migrate infrastructure to hosted vendor . I was thinking of configuring site to site . Current Asa we pal to kee since wireless sits in our DMz and we have net screen that hosts tunnel for erp1. Is context change required for running site to site2. Is it a good idea for creating site to site on to make sure wireless network and oracle traffic goes through managed firewall ?
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Apr 27, 2011
I am looking to deploy a cloud/borderless network solution and cannot get my head around how the licenses (AnyConnect Mobile and essentials) will be applied in a multiple context deployment. Any correct documentation.
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Oct 23, 2012
Firstly is this the right forum to post threads about FWSM's. We have 2 FWSM's in two seperate 6500 switches. There are a number of contexts on each FWSM.I want to fail a context from one FWSM over to the other 6500 and FWSM. Can you tell me how I can do that? Do I need to do it in the admin context and do I need to do it on the admin context of each 6500?
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Oct 29, 2012
I have a ASA 5510 and planning to implement multiple context in a 2 tier security level and vrf-lite. meaning I have 2xASA facing the internet and below that a 2x3560 switch for our extranet and below that is another 2xASA for intranet. See diagram below. In this kind of network I want to know how it would impact the total throughput and resources of the ASA using multiple context?
INTERNET
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2811A 2811B
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ASA_A-------ASA_B
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3560A---------3560B
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ASA_C--------ASA_D
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| | (OUTSIDE)
3560C----------3560B
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INTERNAL NETWORK
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Dec 3, 2012
I have just joined a networks team and will be working on two fwsm versions 4.0(8) in two 6500 routers. Now the fwsms seem to be virtualised with multiple contexts. The server team want a new context setup for a group of servers behind a vlan. [code]
This context just seems to have two Vlans and a BVI interface. What is the function of this context and why we have 2 admin contexts?
Also another important question is on which 6500 do I create the new context? Is the admin context active on one 6500 just like other contexts and will sync across or do I have to create the new context on both 6500s.
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Jan 29, 2012
I am trying to configure multi context on the 5520 ASA , how can i configure 1 outside and 1 inside for the 2 context or how to configure both outside from the same subnet and insides also from the same subnet , i did the below configuration but didn't work . [code]
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Jun 6, 2012
I have a active-active setup with 2 cisco asa 5585x running 8.4 - the boxes ahve each 2 sec context's build-in - which gives 4 sec context in the cluster. I have 2 x 5 extra licenses (2 x ASA5500-SC-5) which I haven't applied yet - will this give me a total of 10 or 14 security contextes? I am a bit in doubt because if I only get 10 sec contextes in this cluster then could I instead get a single 10 security context license (1 x ASA5500-SC-10) and add this - hereby I would get 12 then.
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Mar 11, 2013
We already know that ASA 9.0 supports site-to-site VPN in multiple context mode. But remote access VPN isn't supported. Obviously, SSL-VPN is a very important feature for most multi-tenant deployment scenarios where each context acts as a border firewall towards the Internet for each tenant. The alternative to terminate all tenant remote-access VPNs in one context means that each tenant would have to be routable from the ASA, which of course isn't a reasonable requirement in most cases.
So, what I'd like to do is to deploy an ASA cluster, and provide remote access VPNs for each tenant, where the connectivity for each remote access group can be addressed with whatever IP address space, and that goes into it's own VRF in the back-end.
As far as I can tell, this isn't doable with the ASA, since multiple context mode prohibits the use of remote access VPN, and I can't think of any other work-around than either having individual firewalls running in single context mode for each tenant, or demand that all tenants are interoperable routing-wise and configure a separate ip address pool in a single context mode for each tenant.
Essentially, there's no good way to implement this with multiple virtual firewalls, using cisco firewalls?
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Sep 13, 2011
This is the situation I got to firewalls with failover and I need to upgrade the license so I can get more context (right now I have 5 context and I need 10) so I was looking at the procedure and I'm not sure If I need to restart the device or not. I was looking at this procedure:
Upgrading the License for a Failover using ASDM (No Reload Required) Use the following procedure using ASDM if your new license does not require you to reload. This procedure ensures that there is no downtime.
•1. On the active unit, choose Configuration > Device Management > High Availability > Failover > Setup, and uncheck the Enable Failover check box. Now click Apply. The standby unit remains in a pseudo-standby state. Deactivating failover on the active unit prevents the standby unit from attempting to become active during the period when the licenses do not match. •
2. Choose Configuration > Device Management > Licensing > Activation Key, and enter the new activation key that you obtained with the active unit serial number. Now click Update Activation Key.•
3. Log into the standby unit by double-clicking its address in the Device List. If the device is not in the Device List, click Add to add the device. You might be prompted for credentials to log in.
4. Choose Configuration > Device Management > Licensing > Activation Key, and enter the new activation key that you obtained with the standby unit serial number. Now click Update Activation Key.
5. Log into the active unit again by double-clicking its address in the Device List. Choose Configuration > Device Management > High Availability > Failover > Setup, and re-check the Enable Failover check box.
6. Click Apply. This completes the procedure.link: [URL]
But then I checked on the cisco web page that there are some license that need to reload I see this:
All models
#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.
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So I just want to know if I'm UPGRADING from 5 to 10 context the reload applies to my situation or not?
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Apr 25, 2013
How do i measure the total throughput going via 5585-X.It has the firewall througput of 5Gbps. Looking at aggregate of all the interfaces traffic going through it seems about 4gbps is going through.
I use show traffic command and add up the trasmit and receive traffic on each live interface.Is that correct method and are there any more commands?
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May 3, 2011
I have a firewall module in a Switch Catalyst 6500. I wan to upgrade its context capacity to a greater capacity. When I looked it in the Dynamic configuration, it send me following number parts:
FR-SVC-FWM-VC-T1=
FR-SVC-FWM-UPGR1=
The first one is the license to have 20 context and the next one is upgrade from 20 context to 50 context. My problem is that I haven't could find a service support contract associate them.I want to know if they have or not service contract, because I can´t find them.
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May 7, 2013
I have an ASA 5585 in transparent mode, multi-context. It seems that the option to configure a BVI in one of the traffic contexts isn't there. In other words, while I see the option to configure a bridge group interface in the admin context, no such option comes up in the traffic context.
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Nov 7, 2011
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)?
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