From: Mike Kraus (mikraus) (mikraus@cisco.com)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 10:52:49 ART
Remember that to update IPS signatures, you need to have a valid
SmartNet contract for licensing tied to the Serial #. So, if you have a
CSC serial # even covered under SmartNet, you would not be able to
activate licensing on the unit, so that you could not update signatures.
(Even if you manually download the signatures, it will NOT let you
update them unless the license is up to date on the unit).
So, while the CSC may be $1500 cheaper, you would never be able to
update the signatures so this would not be useful in a production
environment (though from a groupstudy context, it may provide use
educationally and of course would not be officially supported by Cisco.)
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Farrukh Haroon
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 5:16 AM
To: Matthew Long
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: OT: ASA-SSM-10
Thank you for this interesting information, specially if the CSM (or
AIP-SSM) shows up in the Security Lab...this would help those who want
to setup a home lab.
However the CSM will gradually fade away IMHO, it doesn't really perform
as well as it should.
Or it might be migrated to some IronPort code (utilizing the same
hardware).
Regards
Farrukh
On Dec 21, 2007 12:07 PM, Matthew Long <mlong@comms-care.com> wrote:
> I have done a little playing with the ASA-SSM-10 and you can load
> either the CSC or AIP images on the same card.
>
> I replaced the supplied flash (256MB) with a new one 512MB and was
> able to load and run both images.
>
> Which suggests you could reuse a module in a different role, not sure
> how Cisco would deal with the licensing on this especially as a CSC-10
> is $1500 cheaper than a AIP module!
>
> Matt
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of Matthew Long
> Sent: 20 December 2007 15:56
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: OT: ASA-SSM-10
>
> Just a thought, I have been playing with ASA SSM modules today and I
> was wondering if anyone had investigated if it is possible to convert
> a ASA-SSM-10 to be either a CSC or AIP module just by loading
> different images on them?
>
>
>
> The cards seem identical I was just wondering if it was only the flash
> image that was different.
>
>
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>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Matt Long
>
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