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How to upgrade an ASA 5506-X to the new Firepower Threat Defense software?
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In this article it explains the steps required to migrate an existing Cisco ASA with FirePOWER services to the new Firepower Threat Defense image.
With the new Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) image, the ASA is a single image firewall with Firepower services built right in. In this article Brandon Carroll (Who holds the CCIE in security and is a published author in network security.) will take you through the steps required to upgrade an ASA with a FirePOWER module to the new single FTD image.
Before you start an upgrade of your ASA to the new FTD image, you need to make sure you have a supported platform.
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Currently the following platforms are supported:- ASA 5506W-X
- ASA 5506H-X
- ASA 5512-X
- ASA 5555-X
In this example, we will be upgrading an ASA 5506-X to FTD. On the ASA 5506 the SSD is standard, and in fact it's standard on the 5508-X and 5516-X as well. On the 5512-X and 5555-X you need to make sure you have an SSD. It might sound funny, but it's not a stock option. If you ordered one of those platforms with FirePOWER, it's already there, but if you didn't you may not have it.
Obtaining Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) softwareTo get the software you have to have a support agreement with Cisco. You're going to need the following software:
- The Firepower Threat Defense boot image. This will be a .cdisk extension unless your using the ASA 5506-X like me. In that case your extension will be lbff
- FTD system package (.pkg extension)
- TFTP server
- FTP Server
The boot image is loaded using TFTP and the system image is loaded via FTP or HTTP.
Once you have obtained the software you can proceed.
There are two types of images you need, and there are patch files you may want to apply as well. Each of these have different file extensions. The boot images end in the extension .ifbff or .cdisk depending on the platform. This was mentioned previously. For all platforms, the system image ends in .pkg and patch files end in .sh.
High-level process- Upgrade ROMMON if necessary
- Upload and install the FTD OS from the TFTP server
- After a reboot assign temporary network settings
- Upload and install the FTD system package
- Configure the device for management from the FMC
For our first step we want to upgrade ROMMON. Let's take a look at the current image that's installed. To do this, we issue the command show module.
In this case the ASA is already running version 1.1.8. Had we needed to upgrade, we would follow this process:
- Get a copy of the ROMMON image from Cisco.com
- Copy the image to the ASA using TFTP:
- Upgrade the ROMMON image:
- Confirm the upgrade after reload using the show module command.
Our next step is to reimage the ASA to the FTD image. Before we do that it's a good idea to backup our current system.
Now make sure you save this somewhere.
Next, copy out the activation key:
Now we need to reload the ASA and enter ROMMON mode. Remember that this means you need to do this from the serial console. An SSH session into the ASA will not cut it here.
Now that you're sitting at ROMMON you need to set up some temporary management settings. This allows you to pull the boot image off of the TFTP server.
Our next step is to download the boot image. This is a pretty simple process as you can see below.
Now that we have booted into the FTD boot image we need to type setup and go through the basic IP settings. Tigerpaws mac os. Most of your configured settings will come through as you can see in the following output. Items in square brackets are values you can accept by hitting enter.
Ftd Mac Os Download
Next, use the system install command to install the FTD system image. This is the .pkg file.
Finally, after about 30 – 40 minutes you are ready to log in.
The default login here will be adminAdmin123, but we're not going to get into the specifics of the configuration in this article. However, you now have a shiny new FTD image running on your ASA. One new caveat to deal with in this case is that management is now different. In the past you could use the CLI or ASDM to manage your ASA. With the FTD image you can use either Firepower Device Manager or Firepower Management Center to manage your device. (Cisco's install and upgrade guides have more information.)
The Firepower Device Manager is an on-box web-based manager that is similar to how we used to use the ASDM to manage a device. If you have a low and mid-range ASA platform running FTD you'll likely run the Firepower Device Manager.
While it seems like a lengthy process, you can always step away and work on other things while the images load. You should be aware that you will lose some of the features you used to have with the ASA running the old ASA image, but this is definitely the future of Cisco's security appliances so I'd highly recommend you get familiar now.
The reference from https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-upgrade-an-asa-5506-x-to-the-new-firepower-threat-defense-software/
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There are two types of images you need, and there are patch files you may want to apply as well. Each of these have different file extensions. The boot images end in the extension .ifbff or .cdisk depending on the platform. This was mentioned previously. For all platforms, the system image ends in .pkg and patch files end in .sh.
High-level process- Upgrade ROMMON if necessary
- Upload and install the FTD OS from the TFTP server
- After a reboot assign temporary network settings
- Upload and install the FTD system package
- Configure the device for management from the FMC
For our first step we want to upgrade ROMMON. Let's take a look at the current image that's installed. To do this, we issue the command show module.
In this case the ASA is already running version 1.1.8. Had we needed to upgrade, we would follow this process:
- Get a copy of the ROMMON image from Cisco.com
- Copy the image to the ASA using TFTP:
- Upgrade the ROMMON image:
- Confirm the upgrade after reload using the show module command.
Our next step is to reimage the ASA to the FTD image. Before we do that it's a good idea to backup our current system.
Now make sure you save this somewhere.
Next, copy out the activation key:
Now we need to reload the ASA and enter ROMMON mode. Remember that this means you need to do this from the serial console. An SSH session into the ASA will not cut it here.
Now that you're sitting at ROMMON you need to set up some temporary management settings. This allows you to pull the boot image off of the TFTP server.
Our next step is to download the boot image. This is a pretty simple process as you can see below.
Now that we have booted into the FTD boot image we need to type setup and go through the basic IP settings. Tigerpaws mac os. Most of your configured settings will come through as you can see in the following output. Items in square brackets are values you can accept by hitting enter.
Ftd Mac Os Download
Next, use the system install command to install the FTD system image. This is the .pkg file.
Finally, after about 30 – 40 minutes you are ready to log in.
The default login here will be adminAdmin123, but we're not going to get into the specifics of the configuration in this article. However, you now have a shiny new FTD image running on your ASA. One new caveat to deal with in this case is that management is now different. In the past you could use the CLI or ASDM to manage your ASA. With the FTD image you can use either Firepower Device Manager or Firepower Management Center to manage your device. (Cisco's install and upgrade guides have more information.)
The Firepower Device Manager is an on-box web-based manager that is similar to how we used to use the ASDM to manage a device. If you have a low and mid-range ASA platform running FTD you'll likely run the Firepower Device Manager.
While it seems like a lengthy process, you can always step away and work on other things while the images load. You should be aware that you will lose some of the features you used to have with the ASA running the old ASA image, but this is definitely the future of Cisco's security appliances so I'd highly recommend you get familiar now.
The reference from https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-upgrade-an-asa-5506-x-to-the-new-firepower-threat-defense-software/
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