Restore asa5510 config to asa5520

[mark.a.coleman]

Is it possible to restore a working configuration from an ASA5510 to a ASA5520

[Jitendriya Athavale]

yes u can

no prob at all with that

[Kureli Sankar]

Mark,

The physical interface names may be diff. between the two units. You would have to manually configure the interfaces on the ASA5520 or change the interface names on the saved config from the ASA5510.  The rest of the config you can simply copy and paste is not too large or you can tftp it to the ASA5520 and then "copy flash:blah.txt run" It will append the contents to the existing running config.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

-KS

[mark.a.coleman]

Can you clarify that in more detail please because we have an initial full backup and periodic running configs so I need to know exactly the process for performing the routine because it doesn't read too clear

Thanks

[Kureli Sankar]

Mark,

ASA5510:

interface Ethernet0/0
nameif outside
security-level 0
ip address 172.18.124.254 255.255.255.0
!
interface Ethernet0/2
nameif dmz1
security-level 50
ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0

ASA5520:

interface GigabitEthernet0/0
no nameif
no security-level
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
shutdown
no nameif
no security-level
no ip address
!

So, you see the interface names differ? So, if you copy and paste it will not work.  It will error out. You just need to configure the interfaces separately on the ASA5520 and then you can copy and paste or tftp the rest of the config.

Alternatively on your backup copy you can edit that and replace the interface names from Ethernet to GigabitEthernet and save it and then tftp it over to the new ASA5520.

-KS