Not being a day to day Cisco guy I thought I’d throw this up on my blog, mostly for my future reference.  I currently am running PIX OS 7.0(1) and wanted to run ASDM to make configuring my client VPN access easier.

The steps for installing ASDM are pretty easy:

PRD-FW1# copy tftp flash

Enter your tftp server and asdm file name

PRD-FW1(config)# asdm image flash:/asdm-524.bin

PRD-FW1(config)# wr mem

Then to allow the http access:

PRD-FW1(config)# http server enable

PRD-FW1(config)# http 0 0 inside

I initially installed ASDM version 5.24, it copied to flash fine but when I tried to run the following command it gave me an error:

PRD-FW1(config)# asdm image flash:asdm-524.bin

It returned an error saying “Device Manager image set, but not a valid image file flash:asdm-524.bin” If I ran a show run it did show the asdm image, and I did get the webpage to sucessfully load when accessing it from internally but nothing would happen.  My next step was to take the MS approach to troubleshooting and try a reload before pulling my hair out but that didn’t solve anything.

At this point I thought maybe I had an issue with the asdm-524.bin file and I decided to try asdm-512.bin which gave me the same exact problem.  After some searching I realized the ASDM version is apparently tied to the PIX OS version and I needed to use a version like asdm-502.bin

Now I was able to sucessfully run the “asdm image flash:asdm-502.bin” command, but my next problem was that the ASDM Launcher wouldn’t do anything after I logged in and the webpage would just sit at a screen that said “Do not close this window”.

To fix that I found I needed to have a much older version of Java, I needed version 6 update 7 x86 version After I only had that version on my laptop I was able to connect to ASDM successfully.

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