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clear garbage characters from ASA ACL in remarks

bhumit.shah — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:28:12 GMT

Any thouhgts, how can this be done.

I see some garbage entries against remarks included in my ACL. how can I remove it.

eg.

access-list CSM_FW_ACL_app_0 line 1766 remark <?IQ 59bf4135ceea049c:005e7020:0000010cfa51f257:806c?>
access-list CSM_FW_ACL_app_0 line 1767 remark C134480 MCA 10/19/06

access-list CSM_FW_ACL_app_0 line 1769 remark <?IQ 6dbfa001539a3949:01cb3ec4:0000010da858345c:8922?>

access-list CSM_FW_ACL_app_0 line 1771 remark <?IQ 6dbfa001539a3949:01cb3ec4:0000010da858345c:8922?>

access-list CSM_FW_ACL_app_0 line 1808 remark Anti-Virus <?IQ 59bf4135ceea049c:002d95b3:0000010a477ecaea:81c3?>

Hi,

Akshay Rastogi — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:38:00 GMT

Hi,

Have you tried removing the remark completely for the access-list? Does it say 'remark does not exist'? Also does the original configuration contains special characters in remarks?

Also, are you using this ASA through ASDM from both Windows or Linux machine? If yes, it matches the below defect :

https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCtn17903/?reffering_site=dumpcr

So, if you have made the changes from Windows and then accessing the ASA from Linux for removing , then you would not succeed. Therefore you need to go back to windows and remove them(try, not to use special character)

Also check if the ASA and ASDM versions are compatible. Please follow the below link to check the same:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/compatibility/asamatrx.html#pgfId-121785

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Akshay Rastogi

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Thanks Akshay,

bhumit.shah — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:19:10 GMT

Thanks Akshay,

We are using CSM to deploy and manage policies. The CSM dosen't show this delta but we see this in the error that comes up.

When I remove it from CLI it dosen't allow me As there is a "?" in the remark which ASA takes it for "help" and provides a list of options

ASDM, I am using it on windows box.