topic Re: File Prompt Quiet for Cisco ASA? - Using EEM to Backup Config w/ T in Network Management

File Prompt Quiet for Cisco ASA? - Using EEM to Backup Config w/ TFTP

jkwak14 — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 22:06:56 GMT

Hello Community,

I'm trying to configure backing up my Cisco ASA 5585's configuration via event manager with TFTP but I'm not able to determine the equivalent command for "file prompt quiet". Would anything know if it's possible to do and how it can be performed? Thank you much in advance!

Re: File Prompt Quiet for Cisco ASA? - Using EEM to Backup Config w/ T

Flavio Miranda — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 23:47:37 GMT

action 3.0 cli command "conf t"
action 4.0 cli command "file prompt quiet"
action 5.0 cli command "end"
action 6.0 cli command "copy ftp:xxxxxx flash:"

Re: File Prompt Quiet for Cisco ASA? - Using EEM to Backup Config w/ T

jkwak14 — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:27:40 GMT

Thank you for your reply but the Cisco ASA 5000s does not have "file prompt quiet" available in regards to syntax as I stated "I'm not able to determine the equivalent command for "file prompt quiet"."

Re: File Prompt Quiet for Cisco ASA? - Using EEM to Backup Config w/ T

jkwak14 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:37:52 GMT

Figured it out.

Re: File Prompt Quiet for Cisco ASA? - Using EEM to Backup Config w/ T

Georg Pauwen — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 08:36:08 GMT

Hello,

can you share how you resolved this, for reference ? I could not find that command either...

Re: File Prompt Quiet for Cisco ASA? - Using EEM to Backup Config w/ T

jkwak14 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:50:55 GMT

Hello Georg,

You can say the syntax/concept is quite different from a switch or router as the outcome/backup is a .tar (zipped) file and not simply a config file. However, the .tar file does include both running and startup configs in addition to other ASA necessities such as certs and profiles. The file will be considerably larger than a simple config file but I just decided to use this rather than continue to try to figure out how to only offload the config file with EEM.

Here is what I configured and tested as an example/reference:

event manager applet DAILY_BACKUP

event time absolute time 21:59:59

action 2 cli command "enable"

action 3 cli command "backup /noconfirm location tftp://10.X.X.X/"

action 4 cli command "end"