HTTPS Admission for ADSM
Cisco Adaptive Aegis Device Manager (ASDM) is a aegis administration and ecology apparatus for Cisco
PIX 500 and ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Aegis Appliances that is acclimated through an intuitive, easy-to-use, webbased
management interface. ADSM will be discussed added in Chapter 24, "Security and Policy Management."
To use ASDM, the HTTPS server needs to be enabled to acquiesce SSL admission to the aegis appliance. A stepby-
step bureaucracy astrologer is accessible to configure all these tasks application the bureaucracy command. An another is to
configure all accomplish manually. Example 3-10 shows how to accredit the HTTPS server and acquiesce hosts on the
10.1.1.0/24 arrangement from the central interface to admission ASDM.
Example 3-10. Configuring HTTPS Admission for ASDM
Pix(config)# crypto key accomplish rsa modulus 1024
Pix(config)# address mem
Pix(config)# http server enable
Pix(config)# http 10.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 inside
The apparatus allows a best of bristles circumstantial ASDM instances per context, if available, with a best of
32 ASDM instances amid all contexts.
Note
Security contexts will be discussed in detail in Chapter 6, "Cisco Firewalls: Apparatus and Module."