I am confused as to whether my ASA 5506 units have firepower or not.
Reading through forums so far, I gathered that firepower is not really supported on the ASA 5506 on versions 9.10 and up. Both of my ASA 5506 are running 9.14.
A couple of show outputs:
For the first unit:
ciscoasa# show module
Mod Card Type Model Serial No.
---- -------------------------------------------- ------------------ -----------
1 ASA 5506-X with FirePOWER services, 8GE, AC, ASA5506 JAD215203TT
sfr Unsupported Unsupported
Mod MAC Address Range Hw Version Fw Version Sw Version
---- --------------------------------- ------------ ------------ ---------------
1 00be.7511.c26d to 00be.7511.c276 2.1 1.1.12 9.14(3)18
Mod SSM Application Name Status SSM Application Version
---- ------------------------------ ---------------- --------------------------
Mod Status Data Plane Status Compatibility
---- ------------------ --------------------- -------------
1 Up Sys Not Applicable
ciscoasa#
ciscoasa# show ver
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 9.14(3)18
SSP Operating System Version 2.8(1.172)
Device Manager Version 7.13(1)
Compiled on Tue 14-Dec-21 05:00 GMT by builders
System image file is "disk0:/asa9-14-3-18-lfbff-k8.SPA"
Config file at boot was "startup-config"
ciscoasa up 1 hour 18 mins
Hardware: ASA5506, 4096 MB RAM, CPU Atom C2000 series 1250 MHz, 1 CPU (4 cores)
Internal ATA Compact Flash, 8000MB
BIOS Flash M25P64 @ 0xfed01000, 16384KB
Encryption hardware device : Cisco ASA Crypto on-board accelerator (revision 0x1)
Number of accelerators: 1
for the second unit:
ciscoasa# show module
Mod Card Type Model Serial No.
---- -------------------------------------------- ------------------ -----------
1 ASA 5506-X with SW, 8GE Data, 1GE Mgmt, AC ASA5506 JAD202105XC
sfr Unsupported Unsupported
Mod MAC Address Range Hw Version Fw Version Sw Version
---- --------------------------------- ------------ ------------ ---------------
1 cc16.7e00.d922 to cc16.7e00.d92b 2.2 1.1.14 9.14(3)18
Mod SSM Application Name Status SSM Application Version
---- ------------------------------ ---------------- --------------------------
Mod Status Data Plane Status Compatibility
---- ------------------ --------------------- -------------
1 Up Sys Not Applicable
ciscoasa#
ciscoasa# show ver
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 9.14(3)18
SSP Operating System Version 2.8(1.172)
Device Manager Version 7.5(1)
Compiled on Tue 14-Dec-21 05:00 GMT by builders
System image file is "disk0:/asa9-14-3-18-lfbff-k8.SPA"
Config file at boot was "startup-config"
ciscoasa up 1 hour 19 mins
Hardware: ASA5506, 4096 MB RAM, CPU Atom C2000 series 1250 MHz, 1 CPU (4 cores)
Internal ATA Compact Flash, 8000MB
BIOS Flash M25P64 @ 0xfed01000, 16384KB
Encryption hardware device : Cisco ASA Crypto on-board accelerator (revision 0x1)
Number of accelerators: 1
In the output above. I've denoted in bold about the parts possibly pertaining to firepower?
both units share the: "sfr Unsupported Unsupported" which I've come to understand is the actual firepower itself. But because of both units running version 9.14, do they both have firepower? furthermore, one unit says: ASA 5506-X with FirePOWER where as the other doesn't say with firePOWER nor even mention anything about firepower other than the fact that "sfr Unsupported Unsupported" is prevalent across both.
Please help understand if my units have firepower or if firepower is just not supported at all
Thanks!!