Cisco Firewall :: Upgrading License For More Context ASA 5580?
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?
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 ?
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.
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.
One of our clients has recently purchased upgrade licenses for their cisco asa as follows
L-ASA5505-10-50= and L-ASA5505-SEC-PL=
after retrieving the activation key from the cisco website we tried entering the activation key to the asa both via ASDM and telnet when entering the command on telnet the shell becomes unresponsive when entering the command on ASDM we receive a "success" message followed by a request to restart ASDM and save the configuration after a minute or so i get an error screen saying "write mem" the asdm restarts and nothing changes.
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 ?
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.
Am attempting to load a new license on a 24 Port 3750X. Was LANBase code, need to get it to IPBase. Have the license file. Have put it on the flash drive. Running "license install flash:" i get the message "%Error reading flash: (is a directory)%Error: License installation failed with error: XML parsing failed"The license installation instructions are a bit cryptic so I could be messing it up. However, every variation I can think of is not working. The command listed above gets the most "promising" results.
I need to upgrade a pair of ACE30s to 8Gbps.According to the administration guide, there will be no impact.BUT, it states also:
All license installations except one have no adverse impact to an operating ACE. [URL] Ofcourse, nothing is said about which one has impact.I assume it's the 16Gbps license but how to confirm this?
I have cisco 3750 with ipservices license and I am running with c3750e-universal-mz.122-50.SE2. And I would like to upgrade the IOS " k9" IOS. ie c3750e-universalk9-mz.122-50.SE2. Is there any license required for that ?Also any difference in the IOS upgrade procedure.
What's the difference between VPN Plus license and Security Plus license. I have new 5520 shipped with VPN Plus license.Also does it require a seperate license for Anyconnect for Mobile and AnyConnect Essentials.
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?
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?
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.
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 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?
