Pix To Asa Migration Tool 8.4

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  • 1. How to use the Cisco Official Tool from PIX firewall to ASA? Difference between PIX Firewall and ASA on Configuration Compare the PIX Firewall with ASA, the most critical question is that they are completely different in the configuration. In other words, to achieve the same purpose, the commands used in the PIX Firewall and ASA are not the same. ASA adopts 'Internet operating system' configuration interface while PIX firewall adopts configuration interface provided by 'PIX Operating System'. The main differences may be concluded as below: ASA belongs to different hardware devices and have different interface name. ASA adopts a similar interface command mode of Cisco Internet Operating System. PIX firewall use FIXUP command to monitor the situation while the ASA using a strategy map. The function of outbound and conduit commands in PIX firewall was replaced by an access control list in ASA. There are two ways can be selected on completing the conversion process, manual mode or automatic migration tool. If you want precise control over each step, then you may need to select the manual mode. However, Cisco can provide software tools from PIX firewall to ASA to realize the entire migration process automatically. Let us look at it is how to carry out the work. Note If you want to use this tool, you must ensure the PIX operating system running on PIX Firewall is 6.3 or higher version. How to Upgrading I downloaded the Cisco automatically migration tool from PIX Firewall to ASA on the official website (require registration and provide PIX Firewall service protocols). It contains three different versions, which can support the operating environment on Windows XP, Apple's OSX and the ninth edition of Red Hat Linux operating system. I downloaded and installed the Windows XP operating system version. After the installation, I found the whole kit by part of the user guide, migration scripts and 1
  • 2. practical tools and other components. The use of migration tool from PIX firewall to ASA is really very simple. You should provide a source location and a target location when starting. Source location can be an 'active' device (already powered on and in operation), you can also save the configuration file on your hard drive. If you need to exit the active device, then you need to enter a similar 'https: // IP address / configured network address to save the configuration information to a blank configuration profile and the target position is the place to save local migration profiles. After configuring the location of the target and source files, you can use this tool to scan configuration. The next step is to determine the specific type of device, because it is the only way to go on the entire tool. It belongs to the Cisco ASA 5500 Series firewalls, such as ASA 5505? 5510? 5520? 5550? 5580? What kind of license it has been adopted? Here I chose an enhanced version of the licensing agreement ASA 5505 and converted the Ethernet interface defaulted by PIX to virtual LAN interface of ASA. The result after operation is shown as below: 2
  • 3. Set target configuration for ASA. You can create this configuration after a few seconds, shown as below. Next, you can click and view the target configuration, browse the newly generated ASA configuration file. You can find its contents as shown as below. This is the new ASA converted configuration file. Not for that, you can even find that it adopts a strategy map to replace the fixup command. 3
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AFAIK there is no migration tool for it since the ASA does migrate it automatically when you upgrade. Thanks, Varun. Tool for migrate ASA from 8.2 to 8.4.

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Follow the selections security > firewall > firewall appliances > cisco pix firewall software > cisco pix firewall version 4.4 Expand the folder for '1', click on '1.0'. Pix to ASA converter is listed here. Does anyone know of a tool that can convert a pre-8.3 ASA configuration (access-lists and NATs in particular) to a post-8.3 format? Since the ACLs in 8.2 reference the pre-NAT IPs, none of the automagic NAT rule Security rule mapping takes place and zones are all mixed up.