Can't Connect to Console

[msenior73]

I'm trying to access our ASA 5512-X via the Management port, but the address https://192.168.1.1/admin can't be displayed.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Thanks.                  

[Jouni Forss]

Hi,

You are not configuring an interface IP address with that command.

It only defines the source network/address from where ASDM management connections are allowed from.

To configure an interface you will first have to move under that interfaces configuration mode and then enter the command

"ip address "

- Jouni

[msenior73]

After typing in

http 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0 management

Then I went to the managament interface and typed in

ip address 172.16.1.3 255.255.255.0

and now I get an error:  Interface address is not on same subnet as DHCP pool

[Jouni Forss]

Hmm,

Maybe we should take a step back and really look at what you are trying to achieve.

This would probably be solved the fastest and easiest way by you sharing your current configurations and clearly stating what you want to configure or change in the configuration.

If you indeed just want to change the interface IP address/subnet of the Management interface then you will probably need to remove the DHCP Pool for that interface from the ASA before you can change the interface IP address.

- Jouni

[msenior73]

What I'm trying to do is get the firewall configured for our network so I can connect to it and configure the rest of the settings.

I'm trying to give the management port an IP of 172.16.1.3 and the firewall itself the IP of 172.16.1.2.

We have another server handling DHCP, so the firewall doesn't need to do that.

I hope that clears things up.

~ Michael

[Jouni Forss]

Was there a particular reason you needed to change the IP address of the interface?

If you do want to change the interface IP address you would have to remove the DHCP configuration of the interface for which you are trying to change the IP address for.

There are 2 options

• Remove the DHCP configuration line by line with "no" parameter infront of the command
• Issue the command "clear configure dhcpd" to remove ALL DHCP configurations from the ASA

Then you are free to change the IP address of the ASA interface

And also make sure you have the configurations

http server enable

http 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0

So you can access the ASDM

- Jouni

[msenior73]

I was thinking of changing the management IP address since the ASA IP needs to be changed.  Plus, whenever I needed to access the console, I could plug it into the switch and access it from anywhere on the network.

Is that advisable?