Firewall – Cisco ASA 5520 is missing management interface

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The ASA 5520 show version shows the following

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.4(2)

System image file is "Unknown, monitor mode tftp booted image"
Config file at boot was "startup-config"

ciscoasa up 1 hour 10 mins

Hardware:   ASA 5520, 1024 MB RAM, CPU Pentium II 1000 MHz
Internal ATA Compact Flash, 256MB
BIOS Flash unknown @ 0x0, 0KB


 0: Ext: GigabitEthernet0    : address is 0000.ab96.8d00, irq 0
 1: Ext: GigabitEthernet1    : address is 0000.ab44.cd01, irq 0
 2: Ext: GigabitEthernet2    : address is 0000.ab4e.3902, irq 0
 3: Ext: GigabitEthernet3    : address is 0000.abd9.ac03, irq 0
 4: Ext: GigabitEthernet4    : address is 0000.abb5.b804, irq 0
 5: Ext: GigabitEthernet5    : address is 0000.ab14.cf05, irq 0

I want to identify then configure the management interface, however the output shows there is no interface Management. How can the management interface be found? Is it missing from hardware or is it missing configuration?

Best Answer

It's just your ASA doesn't have a dedicated management port.

Then you must setup one of your ASA interfaces to become management interface.

The ASA 5510 and higher adaptive security appliance includes a dedicated management interface called Management 0/0, which is meant to support traffic to the security appliance. However, you can configure any interface to be a management-only interface using the management-only command.

The output you provided is from real device or from GNS3 simulator?

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