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ciscoasa> enable
Password:
ciscoasa# show activation-key
Serial Number: JMXXXXXXX
Running Activation Key: 0xceXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 0fb6
Licensed features for this platform:
Maximum Physical Interfaces : Unlimited
Maximum VLANs : 50
Inside Hosts : Unlimited
Failover : Disabled
VPN-DES : Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES : Enabled
Security Contexts : 0
GTP/GPRS : Disabled
SSL VPN Peers : 2
Total VPN Peers : 250
Shared License : Disabled
AnyConnect for Mobile : Disabled
AnyConnect for Linksys phone : Disabled
AnyConnect Essentials : Disabled
Advanced Endpoint Assessment : Disabled
UC Phone Proxy Sessions : 2
Total UC Proxy Sessions : 2
Botnet Traffic Filter : Disabled
This platform has a Base license.
The flash activation key is the SAME as the running key.
CISCO DATASHEET:
Cisco®ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances deliver a robust suite of highly integrated, market-leading security services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), enterprises, and service providers—in addition to providing unprecedented services flexibility, modular scalability, feature extensibility, and lower deployment and operations costs.
Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliancesare purpose-built solutions that integrate world-class firewall, unified communications security, VPN, intrusion prevention (IPS), and content security services in a unified platform. The series builds upon proven technologies from Cisco PIX®500 Series Security Appliances, Cisco IPS 4200 Series Sensors, and Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators.
Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances are a key component of the Cisco Self-Defending Network. The Cisco ASA 5500 Series provides intelligent threat defense that stops attacks before they penetrate the network perimeter, controls network and application activity, and delivers secure remote access and site-to-site connectivity. The result is a powerful multifunction network security appliance family that provides security breadth, precision, and depth for protecting business networks of all sizes, while reducing the overall deployment and operations costs associated with implementing comprehensive multilayer security.
Figure 1.Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances
The Cisco ASA 5500 Series helps businesses increase effectiveness and efficiency in protecting their networks and applications, while delivering exceptional investment protection through the following elements:
●Market-proven security capabilities—The Cisco ASA 5500 Series integrates multiple full-featured, high-performance security services, including application-aware firewall, SSL and IPsec VPN, IPS, antivirus, antispam, antiphishing, and web filtering services. These technologies deliver strong network- and application-layer security, user-based access control, worm mitigation, malware protection, improved employee productivity, instant messaging and peer-to-peer control, and secure remote user and site connectivity.
●Extensible integrated services architecture—The Cisco ASA 5500 Series offers businesses strong, adaptive protection from the fast-evolving threat environment through its unique combination of hardware and software extensibility and its powerful Modular Policy Framework (MPF). The innovative extensible multiprocessor design and software architecture of the Cisco ASA 5500 Series enables businesses to easily install additional high-performance security services through security services modules (SSMs) and security services cards (SSCs). This provides businesses with outstanding investment protection, while enabling them to expand the security services profile of their Cisco ASA 5500 Series, as their security and performance needs grow. All these services are easily managed through the powerful Cisco Modular Policy Framework, which allows businesses to create highly customized security policies while making it simple to add new security and networking services into their existing policies.
●Reduced deployment and operations costs—The Cisco ASA 5500 Series enables standardization on a single platform to reduce the overall operational cost of security. A common environment for configuration simplifies management and reduces training costs for staff, while the common hardware platform of the series reduces sparing costs. Additional efficiencies are realized by deploying integrated capabilities, obviating the need for the complex designs required to connect standalone solutions.
●Comprehensive management interfaces—The graphical Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM), a comprehensive command line interface (CLI), verbose syslog, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support round out a rich complement of management options. Multi-unit deployments benefit greatly from Cisco Security Manager, a platform capable of managing distributed deployments of 5 to 5000 devices. The award-winning Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (Cisco Security MARS) recognizes and correlates real network attacks and then rapidly defines how to stop them, thereby decreasing administrative overhead by reducing false positives and simplifying audit compliance.
The Cisco ASA 5500 Series
The Cisco ASA 5500 Series includes the Cisco ASA 5505, 5510, 5520, 5540, 5550, and 5580 Adaptive Security Appliances—purpose-built, high-performance security solutions that take advantage of Cisco’s expertise in developing industry-leading, award-winning security and VPN solutions. Through the Cisco MPF, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series brings a new level of security and policy control to applications and networks. MPF enables highly customizable, flow-specific security policies that have been tailored to application requirements. The performance and extensibility of the Cisco ASA 5500 Series are enhanced through user-installable SSMs. This adaptable architecture enables businesses to rapidly deploy security services when and where they are needed, such as tailoring inspection techniques to specific application and user needs or adding additional intrusion prevention and content security services such as those delivered by the Adaptive Inspection and Prevention (AIP) and Content Security and Control (CSC) SSMs. Furthermore, the modular hardware architecture of the Cisco ASA 5500 Series, along with the powerful MPF, provides the flexibility to meet future network and security requirements, extending the outstanding investment protection provided by the Cisco ASA 5500 Series, and allowing businesses to adapt their network defenses to new threats as they arise.
All Cisco ASA 5500 Series appliances include maximum IPsec VPN users on the base system; SSL VPN is licensed and purchased separately. By converging SSL and IPsec VPN services with comprehensive threat defense technologies, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series provides highly customizable, granular network access tailored to meet the requirements of diverse deployment environments, while providing advanced endpoint and network-level security.
Cisco ASA 5505 Adaptive Security Appliance
The Cisco ASA 5505 Adaptive Security Appliance is a next-generation, full-featured security appliance for small business, branch office, and enterprise teleworker environments. The Cisco ASA 5505 delivers high-performance firewall, SSL and IPsec VPN, and rich networking services in a modular, \"plug-and-play\" appliance. Using the integrated Cisco ASDM, the Cisco ASA 5505 can be rapidly deployed and easily managed, enabling businesses to minimize operations costs. The Cisco ASA 5505 features a flexible 8-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet switch, whose ports can be dynamically grouped to create up to three separate VLANs for home, business, and Internet traffic for improved network segmentation and security. The Cisco ASA 5505 provides two Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports, enabling simplified deployment of Cisco IP phones with zero-touch secure voice over IP (VoIP) capabilities, and deployment of external wireless access points for extended network mobility. High-performance intrusion prevention and worm mitigation service is available with the addition of AIP SSC. Multiple USB ports can be used to enable additional services and capabilities in the future.
As business needs grow, customers can install a Security Plus upgrade license, enabling the Cisco ASA 5505 to scale to support a higher connection capacity and up to 25 IPsec VPN users, add full DMZ support, and integrate into switched network environments through VLAN trunking support. Furthermore, this upgrade license maximizes business continuity by enabling support for redundant ISP connections and stateless Active/Standby high-availability services.
Businesses can also extend the Cisco ASA 5505’s VPN service by enabling SSL VPN remote access to support various mobile workers and business partners. Cisco Secure Remote-Access Solution deployments can scale up to 25 SSL VPN concurrent users on each Cisco ASA 5505 by installing an SSL VPN upgrade license.
This combination of market-leading security and VPN services, advanced networking features, flexible remote management capabilities, and future extensibility makes the Cisco ASA 5505 an excellent choice for businesses requiring a best-in-class small business, branch office, or enterprise teleworker security solution.
Table 1 lists features of the Cisco ASA 5505.
Table 1.Cisco ASA 5505 Adaptive Security Appliance Platform Capabilities and Capacities
Feature
Description
Firewall Throughput
Up to 150 Mbps
Maximum Firewall and IPS Throughput
Up to 75 Mbps with AIP SSC-5
VPN Throughput
Up to 100 Mbps
Concurrent Sessions
IPsec VPN Peers
10; 25**
SSL VPN Peer License Levels*
2, 10, or 25
Interfaces
8-port Fast Ethernet switch with dynamic port grouping (including 2 PoE ports)
Virtual Interfaces (VLANs)
3 (no trunking support) / 20 (with trunking support)**
High Availability
Not supported; stateless Active/Standby and redundant ISP support**
* Separately licensed feature; includes two with the base system** Upgrade available with Cisco ASA 5505 Security Plus license
Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance
The Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance delivers advanced security and networking services for small and medium-sized businesses and enterprise remote/branch offices in an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective appliance. These services can be easily managed and monitored by the integrated, Cisco ASDM application, thus reducing the overall deployment and operations costs associated with providing this high level of security. The Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance provides high-performance firewall and VPN services and five integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet interfaces. It optionally provides high-performance intrusion prevention and worm mitigation services through the AIP SSM, or comprehensive malware protection services through the CSC SSM. This unique combination of services on a single platform makes the Cisco ASA 5510 an excellent choice for businesses requiring a cost-effective, extensible, DMZ-enabled security solution.
As business needs grow, customers can install a Security Plus license, upgrading two of the Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance interfaces to Gigabit Ethernet and enabling integration into switched network environments through VLAN support. This upgrade license maximizes business continuity by enabling Active/Active and Active/Standby high-availability services. Using the optional security context capabilities of the Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance, businesses can deploy up to five virtual firewalls within an appliance to enable compartmentalized control of security policies on a departmental level. This virtualization strengthens security and reduces overall management and support costs while consolidating multiple security devices into a single appliance.
Businesses can extend their SSL and IPsec VPN capacity to support a larger number of mobile workers, remote sites, and business partners. Businesses can scale up to 250 SSL VPN peers on each Cisco ASA 5510 by installing an SSL VPN upgrade license; Up to 250 IPsec VPN peers are supported on the base platform.
VPN capacity and resiliency can also be increased by taking advantage of the Cisco ASA 5510\'s integrated VPN clustering and load-balancing capabilities (available with a Security Plus license). The Cisco ASA 5510 supports up to 10 appliances in a cluster, offering a maximum of 2500 SSL VPN peers or 2500 IPsec VPN peers per cluster. For business continuity and event planning, the Cisco ASA 5510 can also benefit from the Cisco VPN FLEX licenses, which enable administrators to react to or plan for short-term bursts of concurrent SSL VPN remote-access users, for up to a 2-month period.
Table 2 lists features of the Cisco ASA 5510.
Table 2.Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance Platform Capabilities and Capacities
Feature
Description
Firewall Throughput
Up to 300 Mbps
Maximum Firewall and IPS Throughput
●Up to 150 Mbps with AIP SSM-10●Up to 300 Mbps with AIP SSM-20
VPN Throughput
Up to 170 Mbps
Concurrent Sessions
50,000; 130,000***
IPsec VPN Peers
250
SSL VPN Peer License Levels*
2,10, 25, 50, 100, or 250
Security Contexts
Up to 5**
Interfaces***
5 Fast Ethernet ports; 2 Gigabit Ethernet + 3 Fast Ethernet***
Virtual Interfaces (VLANs)
50; 100***
VPN clustering and load balancing
High Availability
Not supported; Active/Active****, Active/Standby***
* Separately licensed feature; includes two with the base system** Separately licensed feature; includes two with the Cisco ASA 5510 Security Plus license*** Upgrade available with Cisco ASA 5510 Security Plus license****Available for the firewall feature set
Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance
The Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance delivers security services with Active/Active high availability and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for medium-sized enterprise networks in a modular, high-performance appliance. With four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and support for up to 100 VLANs, businesses can easily deploy the Cisco ASA 5520 into multiple zones within their network. The Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance scales with businesses as their network security requirements grow, delivering solid investment protection.
Businesses can extend their SSL and IPsec VPN capacity to support a larger number of mobile workers, remote sites, and business partners. Businesses can scale up to 750 SSL VPN peers on each Cisco ASA 5520 by installing an SSL VPN upgrade license; 750 IPsec VPN peers are supported on the base platform. VPN capacity and resiliency can be increased by taking advantage of the Cisco ASA 5520\'s integrated VPN clustering and load-balancing capabilities. The Cisco ASA 5520 supports up to 10 appliances in a cluster, offering a maximum of 7500 SSL VPN peers or 7500 IPsec VPN peers per cluster. For business continuity and event planning, the Cisco ASA 5520 can also benefit from the Cisco VPN FLEX licenses, which enable administrators to react to or plan for short-term bursts of concurrent SSL VPN remote-access users, for up to a 2-month period.
The advanced application-layer security and content security defenses provided by the Cisco ASA 5520 can be extended by deploying the high-performance intrusion prevention and worm mitigation capabilities of the AIP SSM, or the comprehensive malware protection of the CSC SSM. Using the optional security context capabilities of the Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance, businesses can deploy up to 20 virtual firewalls within an appliance to enable compartmentalized control of security policies on a departmental level. This virtualization strengthens security and reduces overall management and support costs while consolidating multiple security devices into a single appliance.
Table 3 lists features of the Cisco ASA 5520.
Table 3.Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance Platform Capabilities and Capacities
Feature
Description
Firewall Throughput
Up to 450 Mbps
Maximum Firewall and IPS Throughput
●Up to 225 Mbps with AIP SSM-10●Up to 375 Mbps with AIP SSM-20●Up to 450 Mbps with AIP SSM-40
VPN Throughput
Up to 225 Mbps
Concurrent Sessions
280,000
IPsec VPN Peers
750
SSL VPN Peer License Levels*
2,10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, or 750
Security Contexts*
Up to 20
Interfaces
4 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 1 Fast Ethernet port
Virtual Interfaces (VLANs)
150
Scalability
VPN clustering and load balancing
High Availability
Active/Active**, Active/Standby
*Separately licensed feature; includes two with base system**Available for the firewall feature set
Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance
The Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance delivers high-performance, high-density security services with Active/Active high availability and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for medium-sized and large enterprise and service-provider networks, in a reliable, modular appliance. With four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and support for up to 100 VLANs, businesses can use the Cisco ASA 5540 to segment their network into numerous zones for improved security. The Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance scales with businesses as their network security requirements grow, delivering exceptional investment protection and services scalability. The advanced network and application-layer security services and content security defenses provided by the Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance can be extended by deploying the AIP SSM for high-performance intrusion prevention and worm mitigation.
Businesses can scale their SSL and IPsec VPN capacity to support a larger number of mobile workers, remote sites, and business partners. Businesses can scale up to 2500 SSL VPN peers on each Cisco ASA 5540 by installing an SSL VPN upgrade license; 5000 IPsec VPN peers are supported on the base platform. VPN capacity and resiliency can also be increased by taking advantage of the Cisco ASA 5540\'s integrated VPN clustering and load-balancing capabilities. The Cisco ASA 5540 supports up to 10 appliances in a cluster, supporting a maximum of 25,000 SSL VPN peers or 50,000 IPsec VPN peers per cluster. For business continuity and event planning, the ASA 5540 can also benefit from the Cisco VPN FLEX licenses, which enable administrators to react to or plan for short-term bursts of concurrent SSL VPN remote-access users, for up to a 2-month period.
Using the optional security context capabilities of the Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance, businesses can deploy up to 50 virtual firewalls within an appliance to enable compartmentalized control of security policies on a per-department or per-customer basis, and deliver reduced overall management and support costs.
Table 4 lists features of the Cisco ASA 5540.
Table 4.Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance Platform Capabilities and Capacities
Feature
Description
Firewall Throughput
Up to 650 Mbps
Maximum Firewall and IPS Throughput
●Up to 500 Mbps with AIP-SSM-20●Up to 650 Mbps with AIP-SSM-40
VPN Throughput
Up to 325 Mbps
Concurrent Sessions
400,000
IPsec VPN Peers
5000
SSL VPN Peer License Levels*
2, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, and 2500
Security Contexts
Up to 50*
Interfaces
4 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 1 Fast Ethernet port
Virtual Interfaces (VLANs)
200
Scalability
VPN clustering and load balancing
High Availability
Active/Active**, Active/Standby
*Separately licensed feature; includes two with base system**Available for the firewall feature set
Cisco ASA 5550 Adaptive Security Appliance
The Cisco ASA 5550 Adaptive Security Appliance delivers gigabit-class security services with Active/Active high availability and fiber and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for large enterprise and service-provider networks in a reliable, 1-rack-unit form factor. Using its eight Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, four Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) fiber interfaces*, and support for up to 200 VLANs, businesses can segment their network into numerous high-performance zones for improved security.
The Cisco ASA 5550 Adaptive Security Appliance scales with businesses as their network security requirements grow, delivering exceptional investment protection and services scalability. Businesses can scale their SSL and IPsec VPN capacity to support a larger number of mobile workers, remote sites, and business partners. Businesses can scale up to 5000 SSL VPN peers on each Cisco ASA 5550 by installing an SSL VPN upgrade license; 5000 IPsec VPN peers are supported on the base platform. VPN capacity and resiliency can also be increased by taking advantage of the Cisco ASA 5550\'s integrated VPN clustering and load-balancing capabilities. The Cisco ASA 5550 supports up to 10 appliances in a cluster, supporting a maximum of 50,000 SSL VPN peers or 50,000 IPsec VPN peers per cluster. For business continuity and event planning, the ASA 5550 can also benefit from the Cisco VPN FLEX licenses, which enable administrators to react to or plan for short-term bursts of concurrent SSL VPN remote-access users, for up to a 2-month period.
Using the optional security context capabilities of the Cisco ASA 5550 Adaptive Security Appliance, businesses can deploy up to 50 virtual firewalls within an appliance to enable compartmentalized control of security policies on a per-department or per-customer basis, and deliver reduced overall management and support costs.
Note:The system provides a total of 12 Gigabit Ethernet ports, of which only 8 can be in service at any time. Businesses can choose between copper or fiber connectivity, providing flexibility for data center, campus, or enterprise edge connectivity.
Table 5 lists features of the Cisco ASA 5550.
Table 5.Cisco ASA 5550 Adaptive Security Appliance Platform Capabilities and Capacities
Feature
Description
Firewall Throughput
Up to 1.2 Gbps
VPN Throughput
Up to 425 Mbps
Concurrent Sessions
650,000
IPsec VPN Peers
5000
SSL VPN Peer License Levels*
2,10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 2500, and 5000
Security Contexts
Up to 50*
Interfaces
8 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 4 SFP fiber ports, and 1 Fast Ethernet port
Virtual Interfaces (VLANs)
250
Scalability
VPN clustering and load balancing
High Availability
Active/Active**, Active/Standby
*Separately licensed feature; includes two with base system**Available for the firewall feature set
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Service and Support
Cisco services help you protect your network investment, optimize network operations, and prepare your network for new applications to extend network intelligence and the power of your business.
Included in the “Operate” phase of the service lifecycle are Cisco Security Intellishield Alert Manager Service, Cisco SMARTnet®, Service Provider Base, and Cisco Services for IPS. These services are suitable for enterprise, commercial, and service provider customers.
Cisco Security Intellishield Alert Manager Service provides a customizable, web-based threat and vulnerability alert service that allows organizations to easily access timely, accurate, and credible information about potential vulnerabilities in their environment.
Cisco Services for IPS supports modules, platforms, and bundles of platforms and modules that feature IPS capabilities. Cisco SMARTnet and Service Provider Base support other products in this family.
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Includes power cable and serial cable.
