KB ID 0000226

Problem

Whilst messing around with my home firewall, I noticed that it no longer displayed the hostname on the command prompt,I checked Telnet and SSH, the results were the same.

Solution

Option 1 from Command Line

I’d managed to change the default setting for “prompt”

1. Log into the Firewall > go to “enable” mode then “Configure Terminal” mode.

[box]prompt ?[/box]

2. To change it back to the default, which is (hostname context) issue the following command.

[box]prompt hostname context[/box]

Note: You would only see the context if you were in multiple mode! You can also add the following,

hostname – the firewalls name. domain – The firewall configured domain name. priority – Only when deployed in fail over mode. (pri – primary and sec – secondary). state – Only when deployed in fail over mode. (act – active, stby – standby, actNoFailover – fail over not enabled and unit is active, and stbyNoFailover – fail over not enabled and unit is in standby).

Option 2 from ASDM

1. Open the ASDM and Navigate to Configuration > Device Management > Management Access > CLI Prompt > Add and Delete as applicable. (Screen shot shows the default).

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2. When done, click File > Save running configuration to flash.

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