ASDM takes long time to load after updating to 7.18(1.152)

[Daniel LRA]

After updating the ASDM to version 7.18(1.152) (OpenJRE) on my 5506-X ASAs and installing the new launcher on my PC (v.1.9(5)) I noticed that it takes a long time until the ASDM is fully opened. I enter the IP, user and password, login and then the ASDM is displaying "Checking the launcher version compatibility... done" for several minutes.

I found out that the network traffic on those firewalls goes up while trying to connect, which makes me believe that the ASA is sending the whole ASDM image (just a guess) to the client for some reason. Maybe because of the new support for signed images? Waiting several minutes until I can actually do something is a bit too long, especially on sites with a weak internet connection. Is there any fix to this? It's one reason that keeps me from updating more appliances at the moment.

[Daniel LRA]

So from the disk usage of my client I found out that the ASDM downloads the file "C:\Users\Name\.asdm\data\7.18(1)152pdm.sgz" every time you login, but I have no idea how to prevent that.

[urdas]

NA

[ashmatash1]

Its like Cisco is daring us to find another firewall vendor...

OK, challenge accepted.

[Pietro67]

Same problem here.  Very frustating . I have a lot of ASA around the world with slow connection and it takes to much time to start.

Please fix it !!

[numir]

Try this out-

Increase the ASDM Configuration Memory in Windows To increase the ASDM heap memory size, edit the run.bat file by performing the following procedure. 

Step 1 Go to the ASDM installation directory, for example C:\Program Files (x86)\Cisco Systems\ASDM.

Step 2 Edit the run.bat file with any text editor.

Step 3 In the line that starts with “start javaw.exe”, change the argument prefixed with “-Xmx” to specify your desired heap size. For example, change it to -Xmx768M for 768 MB or -Xmx1G for 1 GB.

Step 4 Save the run.bat file.

[Tdanson9898]

This memory change doesn't fix the problem at all still takes minutes to load at original startup. Very frustrating.

[gmik_pl]

I used it -Xms1024m  -Xmx4096m and asdm works quite ok. You can see that java has some problem with memory handling.

[andahu]

He intentado hacer el procedimiento que indicas, pero persiste la falla. He modificado tambien el XMS al mismo valor del XMX, para mi caso a 1024 y funciona perfecto.

[ForTheHorde]

looks like 7.19 is out

[Tdanson9898]

For The alliance! Tried it out , 7.19 sucks too.

[Rolando Bega]

Same problem here with 7.19.

[gmik_pl]

I used it -Xms1024m  -Xmx4096m and asdm works quite ok. You can see that java has some problem with memory handling.

[Rolando Bega]

Thank you gmik_pl, your solution doesn't fix my issue even with higher "-Xms" and "-Xmx" value.

[gmik_pl]

I had many problems with asdm. Changes to run.bat helped. I am currently using asdm with open jre 7.18.1.152 built in.