Upgrading Firepower on ASA 5506-X

[Lee Dress]

I'm trying to get my ASA 5506-x with Firepower up to 6.1.0 so i can add it to my new firepower management center.

it started off on 5.4.x

it seems every upgrade requires the previous one.

i.e: 6.0.0.1 needs 6.0.0, 6.0.1 needs 6.0.0.1, etc. 

is there an easy way to do this without having to go through every patch?

Thanks in advance.

Lee

[michaellperrin · Accepted solution]

Your best best is to download the boot image and copy it to the ASA.

Keep in mind this will erase your module. Once you add the module back into the FMC you can push all of your configs to it.

asasfr-5500x-boot-6.1.0-330.img

then set the boot image 

sw-module module sfr recover configure image disk0:/asasfr-5500x-boot-6.1.0-330.img

then boot into the recover image

sw-module module sfr recover boot

This takes a while. You can debug the boot to know when it's done with debug module-boot 

Start a session to the module with session sfr conole

Run the setup

Now run the install. I use an FTP server but you can use HTTP as well

system install ftp://<FTP_SERVER>/asasfr-sys-6.1.0-330.pkg

[Lee Dress]

Thanks.  I will do that on the new ones when they come in.