Cisco Security Manager - worthwhile software?

[prash001]

Company has HA 5525 ASAs and a large wireless network with Prime. Monitoring is not so good; Solarwinds that is poorly licensed and configured. A number of times issues have gone unknown for a while because we do not have a good alerting system. Could CSM be a solution for the security side of things?

[Marvin Rhoads]

Not really. It is quite old software and designed for managing large numbers of ASAs (think dozens to hundreds).

It hasn't been significantly enhanced in years as it's on a down glide towards obsolescence as ASAs are gradually replaced by Cisco Secure Firewall (FTD). Even before FTD it never really caught on much. I've seen it in use in a customer environment maybe twice in the past dozen years.

[Rob Ingram]

@prash001 CSM is legacy software. If you want to centrally manage multiple ASA firewalls you be better off using Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO). https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/defense-orchestrator/index.html