topic Converter Cisco ASA Image to FTD in Network Security

Converter Cisco ASA Image to FTD

Alex Ribas — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:46:06 GMT

Hi Community

I have been trying converter Cisco ASA 5516x to image FirePower 2210

Hardware: ASA5516, 8192 MB RAM, CPU Atom C2000 series 2416 MHz, 1 CPU (8 cores)
BIOS Flash M25P64 @ 0xfed01000, 16384KB

I followed the step but I received message that I don't have space in disk to install this package.
the first copy : ftd-boot-9.10.1.3.lfbff --ok

Second: ftd-6.3.0-83.pkg (no space)

Any clue?

thank you

Alex

Re: Converter Cisco ASA Image to FTD

Marvin Rhoads — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:54:48 GMT

You don't copy the pkg file onto the ASA disk0. It gets copied into the Firepower service module SSD once you have booted and bootstrapped the ftd-boot file.

Re: Converter Cisco ASA Image to FTD

Alex Ribas — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:15:02 GMT

Hi Marvin

Thank you for answering

I've done this procedure (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/firepower-ngfw/200884-installing-and-upgrading-firepower-threa.html)

firepower-boot> system install scp://MYIP/ftd-6.3.0-83.pkg <-- that's pkg I used

But after extracting I received this error below in looping and I just stopped after I rebooted via power cable 😞

DB error - will retry: Cannot connect to DB at /ngfw/usr/local/sf/lib/perl/5.10.1/SF/SFDBI.pm line 603.

Any thoughts?

Thank you

Alex Ribas

Re: Converter Cisco ASA Image to FTD

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:52:58 GMT

Sorry - I misread your original post. I see you are imaging to FTD, not ASA with Firepower service module.

Did you clean out the existing files on disk prior to starting the installation of the pkg file? This procedure advises you to do that:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/firepower-ngfw/200884-installing-and-upgrading-firepower-threa.html#anc9

Is there a reason why you are going with version 6.3? That's pretty old and the current recommended release would be 6.6.3.

Re: Converter Cisco ASA Image to FTD

Alex Ribas — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:03:15 GMT

Because I'm tryng register Cisco ASA 5516-x using the new version and I received message that just support the 6.3.x.

Re: Converter Cisco ASA Image to FTD

johnlloyd_13 — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:56:30 GMT

hi,

see helpful link below in converting ASA to FTD.

i used ASA5515x and coverted to FTD.

https://ccnpsecuritywannabe.blogspot.com/2019/07/reimaging-cisco-asa-5500-x-to-firepower.html