ASDM issues after upgrade to JAVA 8 on Macbook

[jthullen]

Hi all, I have a MacBook running 10.10.2, and just upgraded to Java 8 build 40. Wouldn't you know ASDM has now started to "freeze" after I login to the appliance and ASDM is trying to parse the configuration. This has happened when I hit an ASA 5545 running 9.3.1 code (ASDM 7.3.1) but it does NOT happen when I hit an ASA5520 running older 9.1.5 code (ASDM 7.3.1). Odd. Anyone else seeing this? Sure enough when I drop Java back to 7 build 75, ASDM runs fine again when I login to those appliances.

Just as a try, I did upgrade ASDM to 7.3.3 and bumped up the heap size per the release notes, but that did nothing to resolve this issue. ASDM still freezes as its trying to parse the configuration (about 2-4 seconds after I login).

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Jeff

[Charles Hill · Accepted solution]

Looks like you are hitting the following bug

CSCut04399

ASDM hangs on MAC after upgrade to Java 8

Workaround:
none

[jthullen]

Bingo, that is is. Thanks for sending this my way, I will monitor the bug to see when a workaround is in play. Thank you again!

Jeff

[Charles Hill]

Your welcome.