ASDM and Java

oneirishpollack — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:52:36 GMT

I seem to have all kinds of issues trying to manage my firewalls with ASDM.

We have 4 ASA5510 firewalls we manage, three running ASDM 6.4 (3) and one with ASDM 6.3(2) .

I am using a Windows 7 VM

When I go to the ASDM launcher (1.5(50)) and enter my credentials for any one of the four FWs, it hangs on the login of all four. The message is: "Contacting the device. Please wait..."

When I got to the web launch icon on the desktop, it works for the three devices running ASDM 6.4(3), but not for the device running 6.3(4).

Below is the Java console information:

platform is: 1.7

product is: 1.7.0_21

location is: http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se

path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe

args is: null

native platform is: Windows, x86 [ x86, 32bit ]

JavaFX runtime is: JavaFX 2.2.21 found at C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\

enabled is: true

registered is: true

system is: true

When I am in ASDM and try to connect to one of the other firewalls, I get the following message:

I get a Version Mismatch error. "Your ASA image has a version number unknown which is not supported by ASDM 6.4(3). Continue anyway?"

If I click 'yes', it gets stuck at 11%, Intializing communications modules.

Why are there so many issues getting ASDM and Java to work right? What do I need to do to have one management point that I switch between firewalls at?

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