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    0003 Cisco ASA ASDM Configuration

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    The document provides instructions for configuring Cisco's ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) GUI on a Cisco ASA firewall. It describes downloading the correct ASDM image, enabling HTTP access on the ASA, restricting it to a specific network interface, creating an administrative user account, and accessing the ASDM interface through a web browser or by installing the launcher.

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    Cisco ASA ASDM Configuration 

    Cisco’s ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) is the GUI that Cisco offers to configure Course Contents
    and monitor your Cisco ASA firewall. In this lesson I’ll show you how you can enable it.
    ASA Firewall
    First of all, make sure you have the ASDM image on the flash memory of your ASA:

     Unit 1: Basics of the ASA Firewall


    ASA1(config)# show disk0:
    Introduction to Firewalls
    --#-- --length-- -----date/time------ path
    Cisco ASA Erase Configuration
    10 8192 Dec 02 2014 19:09:34 log
    Cisco ASA ASDM Configuration
    18 8192 Dec 02 2014 19:09:44 crypto_archive
    Cisco ASA Security Levels
    106 25088760 Aug 04 2014 13:59:20 asdm-731.bin
     Unit 2: NAT / PAT
    19 8192 Dec 02 2014 19:10:00 coredumpinfo
     Unit 3: Access-Lists
    20 59 Dec 02 2014 19:10:00 coredumpinfo/coredump.cfg

     Unit 4: VLANs and Trunking


    109 27113472 Aug 25 2014 13:10:56 asa915-k8.bin

     Unit 5: IPSEC VPN


    112 31522773 Aug 09 2014 15:01:52 anyconnect-win-3.1.03103-k9.pkg

     Unit 6: SSL VPN


    113 9993060 Aug 09 2014 15:06:50 anyconnect-linux-3.1.03103-
     Unit 7: Network Management
    k9.pkg

     Unit 8: Troubleshooting
    114 11293375 Aug 09 2014 15:08:34 anyconnect-macosx-i386-
    3.1.03103-k9.pkg

    255426560 bytes total (149430272 bytes free)

    If you don’t have one, copy it to the flash memory before you continue. Our next step is
    to tell the ASA which ASDM image we want to use:

    ASA1(config)# asdm image disk0:/asdm-731.bin

    ASDM requires HTTP and it’s disabled by default, let’s enable it:

    ASA1(config)# http server enable

    Instead of giving everyone access to the HTTP server we will specify which network and
    interface are permitted to use the HTTP server:

    ASA1(config)# http 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 INSIDE

    This will only allow network 192.168.1.0 /24 on the inside interface to reach the HTTP
    server. It might be even a better idea to only allow one or two IP addresses that you use
    for management instead of an entire network.

    Let’s continue and make a user account:

    ASA1(config)# username ADMIN password PASSWORD privilege 15


    That’s all we have to do on the ASA. Now you can open a web browser on your
    computer, I’ll be using Windows 7 and Internet Explorer for this. Open the following URL:

    https://192.168.1.254

    You will see the following screen:

    The ASA uses a self signed certificate so that’s why you see this error above. Just click on
    Continue to this website and you will see the following screen:

    Now you can enter the username and password we created earlier. Click OK to continue
    and you will see the main screen:
    You now have two options…you can run ASDM directly from the ASA’s flash memory or
    you can install it on your computer first.

     ASDM requires Java so make sure you have installed it on your computer.

    Let’s install it on our computer. Click “Install ASDM Launcher” to continue and your web
    browser will download a file:

    Click Run and the ASM installation will start, click continue a couple of times and it will be
    installed. You can launch ASDM by clicking on the shortcut on your desktop and you will
    see this login screen:
    Enter the IP address of the ASA and the username/password that we created earlier.
    Click on OK and you will see this:

    Once again we get an error since the ASA is using a self signed certificate. Just click on
    Continue and you will see the main dashboard of ASDM:

    That’s all there is to it. You can now use ASDM to configure and/or monitor your Cisco
    ASA firewall. If you have any questions, just leave a comment!

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     Tags: Security

    Forum Replies


    ReneMolenaar

    Hi Joseph,

    ASDM and Java can be an issue.

    First of all, ASDM 603 is ancient by now. I would start by upgrading it to the latest version, see what happens then.

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