How to export capture from Cisco ASA in multi-context

srijan — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:39:45 GMT

We have a Cisco ASA 5585-x in multi-context mode in our environment. I did a packet capture in one of the contexts and analysed the same on CLI. However, I would like to export it and view the same on Wireshark but my attempts were not successful. I did check the command reference document and also searched online, but looks like I am missing out something.

Some of the errors I encountered:

%Error parsing filename (No such device)

ERROR: Invalid capture specification

ERROR: context <> does not exist

I believe I am committing syntax error but not able to understand the mistake. Also, do I need to execute the copy command from inside the context or from the system mode.?

Name of the context: CTXT1

Name of the capture: mycap

Commands that I tried:

copy capture:CTXT1\mycap tftp://10.20.30.40/var/mycap.pcap

copy capture:CTXT1\mycap tftp://username:mypwd@10.20.30.40/var/mycap.pcap

copy /pcap capture:CTXT1\mycap tftp://10.20.30.40/var/mycap.pcap

copy /pcap capture:CTXT1\mycap tftp://username:mypwd@10.20.30.40/var/mycap.pcap

When I look into the disk0: in system mode, I see the context name as DCFW01-CTXT1.cfg. But when I enter show context, it displays the context name as CTXT1. Please let me know which of the two must be used in the copy command.

Kind Regards,

Srikanth

I have always done this from

GRANT3779 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:53:12 GMT

I have always done this from system context -

copy /pcap capture:CTXT1/mycap tftp://10.20.30.40/mycap.pcap

to rule out a typo use

copy /pcap capture:CTXT1/mycap tftp

then follow prompts

Thank you very much. It

srijan — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:39:09 GMT

Thank you very much. It worked. I followed the second command and followed the prompts.

Re: How to export capture from Cisco ASA in multi-context

qdhdrc_zhn — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:42:30 GMT

great job, I just met this issue, it works

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How to export capture from Cisco ASA in multi-context

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