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Cisco’s Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) is the GUI tool used to manage the Cisco ASA security appliances. In this blog I’ll reveal to you some of my favorite tips, tricks and secrets found inside ASDM. If you haven’t dealt with it before, ASDM is a free configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting management tool that comes with the ASA. In a nutshell, ASDM will manage all the features of the ASA appliance including FW, IPS and VPN. Unlike its big brother Cisco Security Manager (CSM), ASDM is made to configure a standalone ASA one at a time. CSM is the tool you would use to manage and share policy across multiple ASA’s, routers, and IPS appliances.

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First, installing the tool. You can download ASDM from cisco.com or from your ASA itself. You can then run it inside a browser or download the ASDM launcher so it runs as its own application on your PC. I highly recommend ASDM launcher as the way to go. The ASDM launcher works for both Windows and MAC OSX (requires ASDM version 6.4.5 or later). Once launched it will look like the below image. You fill out the info and away you go.

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From my experience with the Demo Mode of ASDM, I can say that using this function is an excellent tutorial for not only configuring an actual ASA security appliance, but also for preparing to take the security appliance certification exams. References: Cisco Security Appliance Configuration Guide using ASDM, 6.2. Related Courses: ASAE - ASA. The ASDM demo mode even models event logs.Second, download and install ASDM demo.msi on a Windows PC.-Next, Copy the Demo folder contents from C: Program Files Cisco Systems ASDM to your. The ASDM demo mode even models event logs. Which brings me to another ASDM secret, demo mode is designed for windows but will also work on MACs. Now click show package contents- A new finder window will open. Apr 05, 2013  In this video i will show you how to install, configure and setup GNS3 with routers and ASA firewalls. Also, I have already changed the battery in my smoke detector:) Links in the video used. Free cisco asdm installer 7.1 download. Security tools downloads - Cisco ASDM by Cisco Systems, Inc. And many more programs are available for instant and free download.

A few secrets about ASDM launcher. First, to get the MAC launcher working you must install it directly from your ASA using a web browser. Currently, there is not a downloadable .dmg file on cisco.com, only a .msi file for windows.

Second, you see that cool “run in demo mode” checkbox? This can be a very handy feature and is available to everyone. To enable it, check the box and click on the link it provides. This will take you to cisco.com where you will need to download the ASDM demo .msi package. It will look like this:

Once installed, ASDM can then be used in a offline demo mode on a windows or mac computer. Demo mode provides you with several configuration types to choose from so you can make it pretend to be an ASA FW or a ASA FW with IPS or a ASA with SSLVPN, etc. The ASDM demo mode even models event logs. All in all ASDM demo mode gives you the experience of configuring and monitoring a live ASA.

Which brings me to another ASDM secret, demo mode is designed for windows but will also work on MACs. This is not something supported by Cisco or found in there docs. It is more of a hack, but a useful one for those (like me) that don’t like to run fusion on their MACs. Here is how you get it to work on a MAC running Lion:

-First, On your MAC install the ASDM launcher by connecting to an ASA via a web browser and clicking install launcher.

-Second, download and install ASDM demo .msi on a Windows PC.

-Next, Copy the Demo folder contents from C:Program FilesCisco SystemsASDM to your MAC.

-On your MAC, open the folder the launcher app is in (usually applicationsCisco) and right click on the launcher app. Now click show package contents

-A new finder window will open. Navigate to /Applications/ASDM/Cisco ASDM-IDM.app/Contents/Resources/Java/demo

-Finally, copy the contents of the windows demo folder into this folder. Now Mac launcher demo should work great! Pick of destiny free online.

Here is a screenshot of ASDM demo mode on a Mac:

And here it is opened up:

Now that we have ASDM installed here are some quick tips.

  • Need to see if there are upgrades for your specific ASA type and version? Use the check for updates tool in ASDM. This software update wizard is much quicker and error free than going to cisco’s website downloading the images then uploading them to the ASA and configuring it to use them. This can all now be done with about 4 clicks right from ASDM. Huge timesaver!
  • Need to quickly see in/out throughput on ASA interfaces? On homepage click on an interface and below it will show the input and output kbps.
  • Need to quickly see your VPN sessions and their details? On homepage view the VPN sessions and click on details to see all the info about your sessions.
  • Packet Tracer is a must use tool for ASA admins. If you haven’t heard about it yet see my previous blog. Packet tracer lets you model how the ASA will react to certain traffic types moving through it. The new feature you need to know about is now tracer can model traffic based on usernames and FQDNs. Stuff like this:
  • Need to send an alert message to your clientless sslvpn users? Under tools you’ll find just such a feature. You can send any alert message you want to your users.
  • Need to get your ASA configured fast? Need to capture packets off the ASA quickly? Use the ASDM wizards! They save you time and eliminate common mistakes, especially for VPN setup. In this case wizards are not for dummies. There are all sorts of wizards in ASDM:

Can’t find where in ASDM to configure something? Find it quickly using the look for tool. You can find it on the ASDM toolbar. Just type in a keyword or two of what you are looking for and the ASDM assistant will take you there. Here is an example:

  • To speed up firewall rule creation use the drag and drop of objects. You can quickly drag and drop objects and service objects into your firewall rule table. If the object table is not open goto view/services to open it.
  • Need to find where an object is being used? Right click on the object and select where used. You will see output like this:
  • Need to put in a temporary rule that auto-expires after a certain time? Or maybe a rule that expires and only allows traffic during business hours for contractors? Use the time-based option in your firewall rules under advanced options on a rule. It looks like this:
  • Need to quickly add NAT to a server or any host object? Use the new object based NAT. This can be a huge timesaver.
  • Need to find botnet and other malware activity quickly? Turn on the botnet traffic filter license on your ASA and you’ll see all sorts of useful info on malicious traffic. Here is a look at just a couple of the botnet monitoring panels.
  • Think you might have a slow or broken connection to your authentication server? You can quickly check the server to ASA performance from your ASDM monitoring/properties/aaa server view. Great tool to help troubleshoot authentication slowness or other erradic behavior. It will look like this:

Need to see who is currently logged in to manage the ASA? Need to kick them off? You can do both from the Monitoring > Properties > Device Access > ASDM/HTTPS/Telnet/SSH Sessions screen. Like this:

  • Need to troubleshoot the ASA connections? Need to parse the ASA logs real-time? The ASDM Log viewer under monitoring is a nice tool for just such activities. It is best suited to near or real-time log parsing. A few of the really cool tools are create rule, show rule, whois and dns lookup. Any of these can be accessed by right clicking on a log message. Again can be a big timesaver.

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by Cyrus Lok on Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 10:32am
The title is weird right? I felt that too… It has a CD but no ASDM installer at least I cannot find it (maybe I am stupid or something but whatever…) not all things inside the CD are windows application file, the cisco vpn client is a zip file in executable format that’s the only thing which I have clicked and run.

There are manuals in pdf format and other files with binary format which windows cannot execute them, some even have pkg format which I think should be for the box instead of my laptop.

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The getting started guide is actually not very informative in my opinion only perhaps I am just impatient to read the starter guide from back to back, but several pictures only showed me how to connect wires…-_-”

There are a lot of manual in the CD of course… Well I only browsed through them… darn. shouldn’t Cisco come out a flash demo video to show new users how to use their product at start up?

Ok. First connect straight through cable to your pc or connect to a switch and from that switch to my pc. I did an ipconfig/all these are the information from that ASA pre-configured dhcp server.

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Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0A-E4-FC-04-FA
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, April 02, 2010 6:56:49 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, April 02, 2010 7:56:49 PM

Again, Cisco product is unlike those home user edition Cisco linksys router, this box is not designed for home user to “play”, so user has to do “more work” to go into it’s sweet ASA ASDM.

ASA5505 is running on FOS version 7.2, the command line is slightly different from IOS command. Knowing some commands in IOS helps to set up the ASA5505, remember Cisco ISR also has a SDM version 2.5? To launch the SDM I need to create a privilege 15 account and enable ip http server and/or ip http secure server.

For ASA’s case it is the same. However by default ASA supports https tcp 443.

Here how it goes:
I have consoled into the ASA5505 box.

Tserver#asa-1
Trying ASA-1 (1.1.1.1, 2005)… Open

ciscoasa>

ciscoasa> en
Password:
ciscoasa#

There is no password by default, so just press enter and you can pass into privilege exec mode.

ciscoasa# conf t
ciscoasa(config)#

Create a privilege level 15 user account. I used a lot of “?” to find out lol… Never be ashamed to use OS help 😉 Also do not be ashamed to ask around if I am stucked… :p

ciscoasa(config)# username cyrus password cisco privilege 15

Enable http server so that I can launch my ASDM:

ciscoasa(config)# http server enable ?

configure mode commands/options:
<1-65535> The management server’s SSL listening port. TCP port 443 is the
default.

I can just press enter after http server enable command this will use the default tcp 443 or I can specify the port I want my browser to syn to.

Open up the browser and type https://192.168.1.1/admin

A authentication dialog will pop up, enter the user account created.

After I have authenticated myself this will be the screen I see.
Now you get what I mean I “download” ASDM from my ASA5505? Wow… what a secure “step” to get the “prize”…-_-“
After installation the ASDM launcher will appear. As usual authenticate and launch the java applet
LOL! It’s loading!!
Finally to the control panel of ASA5505. This is the GUI for ASA5505.

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Finally I hope this has been informative for you and I would like to thank you for reading (Jeremy Cioara’s closing sentence for every video, dun sue me Jeremy! I am one of your fan!!! ) https://coolwup549.weebly.com/skill-slot-machine.html.





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