Policy Based Routing on FTD managed by FDM

[wcutajar]

Hi, I'm trying to set up PBR (Route Maps) on FTD managed by FDM but I'm finding it impossible, on ASA it would look something like this

access-list ROUTEMAP-ACL1 extended permit tcp object CloudKey1 any

route-map ROUTEMAP1 permit 10
 match ip address ROUTEMAP-ACL1
 set ip next-hop <IP-ADDRESS-OF-ISP2-GATEWAY>

 I've added the accesslist and the first line of the route-map command via SmartCLI but I'm stuck on how to create the subsequent commands

If I try to use FlexConfig it says that route-map command is blacklisted CLI

Any ideas?

[Jay Ponce]

Please make sure you are running version 6.6 or higher in the FDM and the syntax is the same as ASA.

[wcutajar]

I am in fact running version 6.6.4, I managed to partially get it to work using a workaround to configure bgp-set-clause to set the next hop as there is a bug which does not let you configure set clause when creating the Route Map in SmartCLI (I have attached a screenshot on how I've set it up.

After that I created a FlexConfig object to attach the above route map to the interface as per below

With the above I can confirm that it works however I have an issue that I have no failover for PBR, on an ASA I would have used the following commands:

set ip next hop verify-availability 192.168.22.254 track 1

set ip next hop verify-availability 192.168.21.254 track 2

which would have enabled failover for PBR using a SLA monitor.

I was so excited to move from ASA to FTD but it seems that the product has so much less features. 

[engineer467]

Hi,

Can you share the steps how you applied this route-map to the interface?

Thanks

[merloxuanyuan23]

Hi there, I got same issue in terms of applying route-map to the interface, have you found solution?

[Marius Gunnerud]

Without knowing the steps you are taking to create the route-map, we can only provide information on how a route-map is created using FDM.  Check the following link

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/660/fdm/fptd-fdm-config-guide-660/fptd-fdm-route-maps.html#Cisco_Task_in_List_GUI.dita_bc8a9c84-fe6d-41ff-abbe-8438fe37e35d

[Hisoka]

I have created same PBR route-map in smart CLI. But please could you share how to apply the object to the desired interface?

[programmer01001]

Hi to apply an object to interface do the following:

1. Create FlexConfig object with this template:

  interface Ethernetx/x
  policy-route route-map <your route-map name>

2. Go to FlexConfig Policy and add your created object to group list. Then deploy.

Hope this helps.

[Karsten Iwen]

The more relevant question is why you are running a completely outdated version …

[wcutajar]

You realize this post is from 2021 right? We decided to move away from Cisco due to lots of these issues, hopefully they have been sorted with newer releases.

[Karsten Iwen]

Well, I obviously did not realize this. Yes, FDM still has shortcomings that are hard to understand. But overall, the platform evolved really well, and in version 7.2+, there is not much missing.

[MHM Cisco World]

bad to know that, what issue you face (alot) can you summary it 
thanks 

MHM