Re: OT-Firewall OS Upgrade path

From: Alexei Monastyrnyi (alexeim73@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 23 2009 - 17:08:46 ART


Farukh,
You may be right on that... I recall 7.0 > 7.1 > 7.2 path but never ran
into trouble doing 7.0 > 7.2 directly. Though it was a long time ago.

I have never used ASDM in productin, the one which comes with 8.0 looks
decent though. So what I would do first was deleting ASDM image from ASA
flash. :-)

A.

Farrukh Haroon wrote:
> Actually to ensure that ASDM works properly (and no commands are lost)
> you have to go through the 7.0 >> 7.1 >> 7.2 path, have a look at:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/products_configuration_example09186a008067e9f9.shtml#intro
>
> "ASDM does not work if you upgrade (or downgrade) the security
> appliance software from 7.0 to 7.2 directly or upgrade (or downgrade)
> the ASDM software from 5.0 to 5.2 directly. You need to do it in
> incremental order.
>
> *Example:* In order to perform the ASDM software upgrade from 5.0 to
> 5.2, first upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 and then upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2.
> Likewise, for the security appliance, first upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1
> and then upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2."
>
> Regards
>
> Farrukh
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Alexei Monastyrnyi
> <alexeim73@gmail.com <mailto:alexeim73@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> Just get an image file with 7.2(4) code on ASA internal flash,
> change boot variable accordingly, save config (on TFTP as well,
> just to be on the safe side) and reload. :-)
> Same for upgrade from 7.x to 8.0
> As simple as this.
> HTH,
> A.
>
>
> Dennis Worth wrote:
>
> Hey Group,
> I have been looking at the upgrade path for ASA 5500, and can
> not seem to
> find the upgrade path to use. Current OS is 7.0.8 and I wanted
> to move to
> 7.2, but I thought we had to upgrade sequentially. Have I
> missed something,
> as I cannot find any documentation on CCO for moving forward.
>
> Please unicast me with any help you can provide.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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