fundamental upgrade question

nygenxny123 — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 23:37:12 GMT

Per Cisco documentations

Upgrading Between Major Releases

To ensure that your configuration updates correctly, you must upgrade to each major release in turn. Therefore, to upgrade from Version 7.0 to Version 8.2, first upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1, then from 7.1 to 7.2, and finally from Version 7.2 to Version 8.2 (8.1 was only available on the ASA 5580).

Currently I have various Firewalls running and we would like to get everythign standard at 8.2.5.22

8.1.1-5580

8.0.3

8.2.2

8.2.4

8.2.3

7.2.3

8.0.2

The above documentation it says I need to upgrade to each major release. Yet the last line says one can go from 7.2 to 8.2 (in my case 8.2.5.22)

So I can skip 8.0. on the ASA that have 7.2 running?

also in some documentation the command copy tftp flash is used and in other copy tftp dir.

Which is best practice?

FW#dir

Directory of disk0:/

7 -rw- 14137344 05:03:32 May 26 2010 asa804-k8.bin

8 drw- 0 05:08:04 May 26 2010 log

9 drw- 0 05:08:38 May 26 2010 crypto_archive

41 -rw- 8386560 10:54:44 Aug 10 2010 asa723-k8.bin

42 -rw- 6287244 10:55:02 Aug 10 2010 asdm-523.bin

255844352 bytes total (226488320 bytes free

)

FW# sh flash

-#- --length-- -----date/time------ path

7 14137344 May 26 2010 05:03:32 asa804-k8.bin

8 0 May 26 2010 05:08:04 log

fundamental upgrade question

varrao — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:33:09 GMT

Hi,

Yes you can upgrade from 7.2 to 8.2.5.x, without issues, its just that the recommendation is to go to the major release first, but this should also not be a problem, as long as you have the correct hardware requirements for the 8.2 release on each firewall. You can check the 8.2 release notes for it.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Varun Rao
Security Team,
Cisco TAC

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