topic Re: management IP best practice in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/management-ip-best-practice/m-p/1526046#M599093 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>The ASAs have their management interface as well.</P><P>The management interface is a regular Ethernet port that can be used as a regular interface but you can use it as a management port with the command ''management-only''</P><P></P><P>Hope it helps.</P><P></P><P>Federico.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:55:09 GMT Federico Coto Fajardo 2010-11-05T13:55:09Z management IP best practice https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/management-ip-best-practice/m-p/1526045#M599092 <P>Hello everybody</P><P>I haven't found this in official documentation and would like to ask what is best practice for managing ASA?</P><P>For routers we use loopback interfaces and IPs which are routed independantly from state of physical interface. Are there anything similar for ASA devices?</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:05:26 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/management-ip-best-practice/m-p/1526045#M599092 m.volodko 2019-03-11T19:05:26Z Re: management IP best practice https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/management-ip-best-practice/m-p/1526046#M599093 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>The ASAs have their management interface as well.</P><P>The management interface is a regular Ethernet port that can be used as a regular interface but you can use it as a management port with the command ''management-only''</P><P></P><P>Hope it helps.</P><P></P><P>Federico.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:55:09 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/management-ip-best-practice/m-p/1526046#M599093 Federico Coto Fajardo 2010-11-05T13:55:09Z Re: management IP best practice https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/management-ip-best-practice/m-p/1526047#M599094 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Correct, but management intarface on asa is a physical interface and it goes down whole device is unaccessible.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:01:56 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/management-ip-best-practice/m-p/1526047#M599094 m.volodko 2010-11-05T14:01:56Z Re: management IP best practice https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/management-ip-best-practice/m-p/1526048#M599095 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>With firewalls (and L2 switches) you're kind of stuck. What we've done in the past is use the management interface and in case of failure/no reachability, we use an out of band device that connects to the console port of the firewall.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:20:23 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/management-ip-best-practice/m-p/1526048#M599095 Collin Clark 2010-11-05T14:20:23Z