Setting your privilege to 15 is very important if you’re the one that is going to manage the ASA.
Now we will set a username and password so you can actually manage the ASA from your desk with SSH/Telnet/ASDM.ĮxampleASA(config)# username example password example privilege 15 This means your in configuration mode.Now we will give our ASA another hostname.Īs you can see the hostname changes immediately. Notice the (config) behind the device hostname. You can do this by issuing the command “configure terminal” The 1st thing you want to do is get into configuration mode.
Now enter enabled mode (look up if you forgot how to) and issue the command “show running-config“.
Pre-configure Firewall now through interactive prompts ?Īnswer with “no” since you want to configure the ASA yourself (you want to be a cisco engineer right ?). Now when your router is restarted you will get this question: You will use the “reload” command for this. Now that you erased your startup configuration you will need to reload the ASA to get a clean configuration. You will be prompted to confirm that you want to erase the configuration. You might wonder why but there is a lot of stuff in that configuration that you don’t need/want and could even cause some network issues if you connected it to your network (DHCP).Įrase configuration in flash memory? This will delete all the default configuration Cisco made for you. The 1st thing you want to do is type the command “write erase”.
Simply hit enter here because there is no enable password configured. ciscoasa> enableĪs you can see you will get a password prompt. Type help or ‘?’ for a list of available commands.