Firewall connections

[danilopasiani1]

Hello,

I don´t have expertise with firewall and I would like a help.

Here in my company I have a firewall ASA5585-SSP-10, 6144 MB RAM, CPU Xeon 5500 series 2000 MHz, 1 CPU (4 cores) and I need account the capacity from my firewall.

Because there are 800 employees and after 3 months will start more 600 employees and I would like to know if the firewall will endure all employees.

I wait for answers.

Thanks a lot

[Karsten Iwen]

It all depends on where the firewall is placed. If it's the edge-firewall to the Internet, it's very likely that the ASA will be fine. Here is a data-sheet where you can see the specs:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/asa-5500-series-next-generation-firewalls/datasheet-c78-730903.html

[danilopasiani1]

Thanks Karsten,

Do you know If there is any tool to do a study of utilization ?

Regards,

Danilo

[Karsten Iwen · Accepted solution]

Any tool that can query the ASA with SNMP is fine. If you don't have one yet, you could start with the free version of PRTG.