topic What Kelvin said. :)I would in Network Security

upgrading ASDM

garyrivers — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 04:05:49 GMT

i'd like to upgrade my ASDM but if i remember correctly both the ASA and ASDM have to have the same versions.

I pulled the following off of my ASA5505

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.4(4)
Device Manager Version 6.4(9)

Compiled on Mon 21-May-12 10:48 by builders
System image file is "disk0:/asa844-k8.bin"
Config file at boot was "startup-config"

any thoughts or advice?

Thanks, Gary

Hi Gary, ASDM version and ASA

ksledge75 — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:20:16 GMT

Hi Gary,

ASDM version and ASA IOS don't necessarily have to be the same.

Here is a link to a matrix which lets you know which ASDM version you need to correspond with whatever version of IOS you have

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

This should get you going. Also Java is very picky on the PC when trying to get your client launched so here is link to a blog I used to help get my IE and Java settings just right

http://www.tpateman.co.uk/reboot/cisco-asa-5505-asdm-access-with-java-7/

Hope this helps

Kelvin

What Kelvin said. :)I would

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:24:20 GMT

What Kelvin said. 🙂

I would add that, unless you have ASA 7.x code, go ahead and load the current ASDM as noted on the Cisco matrix. That's ASDM 7.1(6) as of this writing.

thanks for the advice!!yeah,

garyrivers — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:20:26 GMT

thanks for the advice!!

yeah, the java thing.....i ended up uninstalling the latest java versions and kept version 6.

i think i'm going to attempt to upgrade the ASA and see what happens!

Thanks for your help!