Cisco CSC – Upgrade the Operating System
Nov17

Cisco CSC – Upgrade the Operating System

KB ID 0000807  Problem Upgrading the operating system on the CSC module is pretty straight forward, as long as you have a valid support agreement for your hardware and a CCO account you can download the updates straight from Cisco (here). Solution WARNING: It’s rare that you can update straight to the latest version, by all means try, and the CSC module will simply error if it will not accept the version you are trying to update...

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Cisco ASA 5585-X Port Numbering

KB ID 0001004  Problem Back at the beginning of the year I had to do a firewall design that included an ASA5585-X, I did some searching to find out how the ports were numbered but came up blank. So I took an (incorrect) educated guess. I unboxed and fired one up today, and ran though the port numbering and orientation, and discovered the correct numbering. Solution Note: This ASA5585-X also has a CX module fitted. The bottom...

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Cisco ASA 5500-X Restart the FirePOWER Service Module
Nov17

Cisco ASA 5500-X Restart the FirePOWER Service Module

KB ID 0001101  Problem I’ve only just recently started to work with these, the advantage of them is they are great for SOHO and SMB, and they don’t need additional SSD drives installing. Note: This also procedure works on the larger ASA5500-X firewalls that have Firepower installed on an internal SSD drive, (i.e. 5512,5515,5525, and 5545 etc.) While getting them to work with a Sourcefire appliance, I had to...

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