Cisco ASA 5585-x

[kenneth36]

I am setting up a Cisco ASA 5585-x, I have used the startup wizard and changed the management ip address, however now I am unable to remote in on the new or old ip address, the only way in is via the console port and it appears that i can't change the Management ip address  in the console.

does anyone have any ideas how to reset to factory defaults or to change the management ip address via the console port.

Thanks in advance.

Ken

[joseoroz]

Hello Ken,

The command to reset the configuration back to default is configure factory-default and to change the management ip is:

interface management 0/0

ip address x.x.x.x x.x.x.x.x

I hope this information is helpful.

Regards,

Jose Orozco

[kenneth36]

Hi Jose

thanks for the reply, i have tried both of those commands and neither work. This is why I am a little confused.

[Marius Gunnerud]

When you are configuring the ASA have you configured the SSH and HTTP correctly?

for SSH configured the crypto key, and set up ssh access list?

for ASDM configure the ASA to use the correct ASDM image and configure the http acces-list.  Some times it might be necessary to confiugre the encryption methods for http.  If you still require assistance, please post your configuration (remove all public IPs and passwords).

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[joseoroz]

Can you confirm that you ran the command from configuration mode. You can see that it is a valid command:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa84/configuration/guide/asa_84_cli_config/intro_start.html#wp1312760 

Restoring the Factory Default Configuration

This section describes how to restore the factory default configuration.

Limitations

This feature is available only in routed firewall mode; transparent mode does not support IP addresses for interfaces. In addition, this feature is available only in single context mode; an ASA with a cleared configuration does not have any defined contexts to configure automatically using this feature.

Detailed Steps

Using the CLI:

	Command	Purpose
Step 1	configure factory-default [ip_address [mask]] Example: hostname(config)# configure factory-default 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0	Restores the factory default configuration. If you specify the ip_address, then you set the inside or management interface IP address, depending on your model, instead of using the default IP address of 192.168.1.1. The http command uses the subnet you specify. Similarly, the dhcpd address command range consists of addresses within the subnet that you specify. Note This command also clears the boot system command, if present, along with the rest of the configuration. The boot system command lets you boot from a specific image, including an image on the external flash memory card. The next time you reload the ASA after restoring the factory configuration, it boots from the first image in internal flash memory; if you do not have an image in internal flash memory, the ASA does not boot.
Step 2	write memory Example: active(config)# write memory	Saves the default configuration to flash memory. This command saves the running configuration to the default location for the startup configuration, even if you previously configured the boot config command to set a different location; when the configuration was cleared, this path was also cleared.