Cisco Firewall :: Upgrading ASA 5580 Cluster From 7.2 To 8.2
Aug 19, 2012
we are going to upgrade our 5580 ASA Cluster from 7.2 to 8.2 and want to do it like this way ( which worked for all 7.x upgrades ) :download asa8.2 Image to primary + secondary Firewallreboot primary ( message come up " mate version ...)reboot secondary.Does it works any experience? Does it work if both firewall can see each other during the boot process ?
Do I have to bring the secondary into the monitor mode so the fw is not visible for the primary ?
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?
We currently had to RMA both PIX 525s due to increasing crc errors. After swapping the old ones with the new we are still seeing crc errors on all gig interfaces. We have swapped the gig nic's and the sfp's and the fiber patch cables, yet still the crc errors continue to climb.
Another thing that's interesting is that when we disconnect the secondary we see an increase in throughput.
We are going to impliment Spectrum (CA) in my network,i have ASA-5580-20 firewall now my spectrum server want to communicate with firewall,then only it will discover the firewall logs.Now the problem is my spectrum server is in MZ zone(10.10.10.45) security leval is 70 and my inside interface(10.20.20.101) security leval is 100.
I am unable to ping from spectrum server to firewall because of high security leval.How can i solve this problem,can i change my inside security leval to 69 then i think it will ping.
i check ASR 1006 config with ESP-40, the firewall permonce can reach 40G, ASA 5580 is 20G, can ASR 1006 replace ASA 5580, is there any function feature problem?
a customer have 2 pix 525 with ver 7.0.1 in a failover configuration with serial cable and 2 sc fiber interface and 2 fastethernet 1 used for failover. the strange behaviour is that when i try to do traffic from inside to dmz or dmz to inside the maximum transfer is 862Kb/s to 1MB/s not more.... i don't understand what's happened. the show mem and show cpu are normal 7% mem used and 1-2% cpu used. attached you will find the configuration.
We have the following setup on our Cisco ASA version 8.6.1 One to one NAT rule from outside to our Exchange 2010 cluster IP address (DAG group). This is working fine for clients on the internet accessing their emails via Exchange using their phones. The ASA has the MAC address of the active node from the cluster but when the cluster failover it cache the IP address and are not updating the new MAC when the cluster failover. So users from the outside are unable to connect to the new node from outside the ASA as the MAC address from the passive node is in the MAC table. The MAC address on all the switches update within 2 seconds on the internal network and users don't notice any outage.
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?
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.
I have a misanderstand about management interface configuration in cluster. So I have a cluster asa 5515X with management interface. i Would like to be able to connect to any of the member of my cluster on management interface, so i would like to fix a different ip on management interface on each of my node ip 92 and 91. I think it is the only way to make asa firmware update to access local flash on each node.
my config
interface GigabitEthernet0/1 channel-group 1 mode active no nameif
accessing my cisco ASA, last night we were doing VA on our ASA, after that iam not able to access it through ssh nor telnet. its not giving me any error.. i tried from different system also. SSH & telnet allowed from inside to 0.0.0.0 i have re-generated rsa keys when it was working. ASA version is 8.2 now when i connect telent is giving me blank prompt. i can login using ASDM.
last night we tried to upgrade our cluster (2x ASA5520) from 8.0(4) to 8.2(3) and failed miserably.
1. Both units got the new image, but when we reloaded the secondary unit then we got the following strange message:
"Mate's license (10GE I/O Enabled) is not compatible with my license (10GE I/O Disabled). Fail over will be disabled."
After this message fail over was not there anymore and both units became active (!!!) which killed everything. Of course ASA5520 doesn't have 10GE and we have exactly the same units. What could be the problem here? Currently we run with a single unit with 8.2(3) and the secondary unit is switched off.
2. After the upgrade we cannot connect with multiple VPN sessions from the same client, this gets logged:
"Multiple sessions per tunnel are not supported"
This was working just fine with 8.0(4) and doesn't work with 8.2(3). Do we have to update something in the config or what is causing this? If you ask why we went with 8.2(3) instead of 8.2(5) then the answer is because we were testing that for several month in our secondary data center, but unfortunately only on a single ASA and not on a cluster. We couldn't go higher due to the 512MB RAM we have in all units. And we had to upgrade, because we had crashes with 8.0(4) which was working fine for a long-long time.
I got a problem with a cisco asa 5580 like two days ago and the device stop working (there was a mainteinance window and after that the device didn't work). Now we receive the RMA and we are trying to configure the failover so the new device get the configuration form the one that is working.
But this is the message that I gettin:
Failover message decryption failure. Please make sure both units have the same failover shared key and crypto license or system is not out of memory
We already changed the shared key and crypto license but the failover is still down, what are the features that the cisco need to activate to enable the failover?
We are using Cisco ASA 5580 (8.2) firewall. When i try to ping from inside lan to firewall DMZ interface IP it is not pingable and but from inside users i am able to ping firewall inside interface IP address.
I think we can't ping to other interfaces of ASA by default. But can we allow the single IP address who can ping all the interfaces of firewall?
We are not doing any natting in firewall, for that we used the Load Balancer.
A customer's ASA is presenting the System LED flashing red.I have already analysed the show tech-support and show environment output: Found nothing, everythink seems OK.Cisco ASA 5580-20 - 8.2.1.Single appliance, no failover, multiple context and transparent mode.
i'm new with the asa's...i'm familiar with the FWSM's on 6500's and pix..I'm running Version 8.3(2) and i wanted to setup nat-control and use of identify nats for advertising inside subnets to my outside networks.
the old command was static(inside,outside) 10.x.x.x 10.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.x i'm having a little difficulty decyphering the pdf about the static nat...the command itself is no longer used, nat-control is no longer used, but i'm not quite sure what the equivalent nat command is that equates to the old static inside,outside command.
I have a pair of ASA 5520s in active/standby failover mode, single context. I'll be migrating to multiple context mode later this week. Do I need to break failover first? Or if I don't need to, should I? Or can I do this while maintaining failover? Can either of these scenarios will work (or fail). I'll be remote, doing my work via SSH, but have somebody local who can console in if needed.
Migration option #1 Log into active/primary ASA Configure Multiple Context mode Reboot both devices Login to active/primary ASA
I have encountered a problem in one of customer that the Active ASA 5580 is unable to sync with Standby Failover ASA. When Active is connected with FO and push the configs to it will not find the ethernet/Gig interfaces due to which the all the configuration were not applied and when the primary ASA the secondary is unable to respond.
When i attached console with the Standby ASA i have seen this error.
Number of interfaces on Active and Standby are not consistent.If the problem persists, you should disable and re-enable failover on the Standby.
For detail undestanding i am attaching the configs of primary and standby ASA. The KHI-DR-ASA-BB-01 is the standyby firewall.
If we switch from primary to secondary firewall the interfaces on the secondary go to state waitung than to failed. after awhile the secondary gives the control to the primary.
it seem that traffic passes the secondary firewall during this short failover time . we have several context created on the firewall, Switch Ports checked , cabeling check everythink checked
blackhole Interface inside (10.255.102.134): Normal (Waiting) blackhole Interface shared (10.255.102.134): Normal (Waiting) blackhole Interface inside (10.255.102.133): Failed (Waiting) blackhole Interface shared (10.255.102.133): Normal blackhole Interface inside (10.255.102.133): Normal (Waiting) blackhole Interface shared (10.255.102.133): Normal
We got a replacement ASA 5580 from Cisco. We were not aware of PAK, Is there any other possible to generate Activation key? Can we generate PAK or Activation Key using SO (service order) number?
I have a problem with failover. On My site I have 2 Firewalls 5580. And I did this configuration on my firewall.interface GigabitEthernet3/0description LAN/STATE Failover Interfacespeed nonegotiate.
I have two firewalls in 2 different locations. They act as primary and secondary for my WAN connectivity. I would want a way to synchronize access-lists in both without manually replicating.(access list, NAT and Route)FW model cisco 5580
We have a Cisco ASA 5580 and the outside interface has a public IP address and we noticed we can ping this address from the Internet. I did a packet capture on the outside interface and confirmed the pings and the IP address sending the pings. The 5580 does not have an access list allowing icmp so I'm not sure what is allowing the pings to this interface.
The firewall is running version #8.2 on ASA 5580. Address translation is not needed on Inside network and Outside network.But the customer has hundreds of static command as below.. [code] Can they all be removed and replace with one single command as below?
We are going to setup a L2L VPN with a vendor and they asked us to NAT a couple IP addresses for remote access to a couple of servers on our inside network. Our device is an ASA 5580 with version 8.1 and we have a handfull of public IP addresses for use if needed. The vendor's remote network is a public IP address but for this posting I will use 192.168.10.0. Our inside servers are 10.100.10.20 and 10.100.10.30. Because 10.100.10 is in use with another customer they asked us to NAT 10.77.97.20 and 10.77.97.30 to the two inside servers.
I have got new cisco ASA 5580 running 7.2(4) on it when i am trying to configured Virtual interface on vlan 400 in Gi0/0.400 to LBASE.now the problem is from my MZ zone 10.242.107.17 to Lbase virtual interface 10.242.103.1 iam not able to ping.
