KB ID 0001259
Problem
This tripped me up once before, and I didn’t document it! Normally if you have a console session open with your FirePOWER Module, (that you opened with a ‘session sfr‘ command), then you can just quit, and exit back to the firewall by typing ‘exit‘, like so;
ciscoasa# session sfr Opening command session with module sfr. Connected to module sfr. Escape character sequence is 'CTRL-^X'. Cisco ASA5512 v6.1.0 (build 330) firepower login: admin Password:****** Last login: Tue Nov 22 15:49:51 UTC 2016 on pts/0 > exit Remote card closed command session. Press any key to continue. Command session with module sfr terminated. ciscoasa#
But if you have a console session open with the module, (that you opened with a ‘session sfr console‘ command), then typing exit simply dumps you back at the login screen!
ciscoasa(config)# session sfr console asasfr-boot>exit Cisco FirePOWER Services Boot Image 6.1.0 asasfr login:
Solution
Well that’s annoying! You need to log back into the SFR module, then exit with the following key sequence;
Press ‘Ctrl+Shift+6′
Then release those keys and press ‘x‘
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11/12/2016
wow! thank you Pete for this article. I always logout and reopen the windows
29/04/2017
Thank you for the info Pete! Thanks.
25/11/2017
Thanks! Very useful!
05/03/2018
Perfect, thank you
26/07/2018
Thank u
10/08/2018
Hi,
I facing the same issue with my sfr. I logged in through “session sfr console” and when I exit it again come back to login page of the sfr.
Now the solution you have given above though it is correct, can you tell what if I have connected through OOB connection from remote end via console on the firewall. If do ctrl+shift+6 hold and x, it is coming out directly on my OOB menu mgmt and when I resume connection again it starts with sfr login page again.
Really need help as nobody is there allowed to connect console at all. 🙁
Mahesh
10/08/2018
Hi Mahesh, to be honest I don’t see the problem, once the SFR is built it’s very rare that you need to connect to it again, and I can’t think of a reason I’d need to get into it from OOB management – One it’s setup the only time you would ever need to get into it again is if you have rebuilt it.
The only time this would present a problem ‘out of hours’, is if the SFR is set to ‘fail-closed’, which you can fix without going into a console session anyway?
P
30/08/2018
Commenting to say thanks 🙂
30/08/2018
Glad to help 🙂
11/05/2020
YEEEEES :). Cheers