upgrade ASA service module on Cat 6504

hieumit_1604 · ‎03-21-2013

Hi everyone,

I just got 2 Cat6504 Chassis and 2 ASASM pluged in them. show version from submodule ASA as follow:

SVC-APP-HW-3#show ver

Cisco IOS Software, trifecta Software (trifecta-SP-M), Version 15.1(1)SY, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Compiled Tue 09-Oct-12 14:36 by prod_rel_team

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(50r)SYL2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

SVC-APP-HW uptime is 10 minutes

System returned to ROM by watchdog timer expired

Running default software

Last reload reason: Unknown reason

cisco Catalyst 6000 (MPC8548) processor with 2030592K bytes of memory.

CPU: MPC8548, Version: 2.1, (0x80310021)

CORE: E500, Version: 2.2, (0x80210022)

CPU:1000MHz, CCB:400MHz, DDR:400MHz

L1: D-cache 32 kB enabled

I-cache 32 kB enabled

Last reset from power-on

1000944K bytes of Internal ATA PCMCIA card (Sector size 512 bytes).

Configuration register is 0x2

I want to upgrade new OS for ASA to 8.5 (asa851-smp-k8.bin) but after copy this soft to the module, I can not "write" command or when I reload this box, everything was no changed.

SVC-APP-HW-3#write

startup-config file open failed (No such device)

Please help me upgrade the new software. Thank you in advance!

hieumit_1604 · ‎03-21-2013

At the beginning, I didnt see anything from ASA service module bootflash, it's totally avaiable but I still join it to config. show version as you saw above look like "show version" from Router mode.

I can not find any document about the update OS for the first time ASASM start on.

Jouni Forss · ‎03-21-2013

Hi,

I have never used the ASASM as we are moving from its predecessor FWSM directly to other ASA models.

To me it seems you are managing the actual 6504 and have not moved to the ASASM. I would presume like FWSM you will need to form the management connection through the 6504 to the ASASM.

Though later on you can probably directly configure a management connection to the ASASM

This document might have the information you need to get started

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa84/configuration85/guide/intro_start.html

- Jouni