Best way to reload an asa config?

Hello,
I've been thinking of 2 scenarios that could happen and I woud like to be ready.  If a config error was made on our ASA (we have 2 in active/standby mode) what is the best way to recover assuming we have a tftp backup or local flash copy?  I know their is a config replace option on routers/switches that will compare the running config and the tftp/local copy and then replace the changes to get you back online without a reload.
Also if we had to replace one of the ASA as it was faulty, I guess I would tftp the config but what abount the license keys?
Any thoughts/experience would be mos welcome.
Thanks

If the mistake is not small enough that you can simply undo the commands with "no ___" then copy the backup file to running-config and write mem to further copy it into the startup-config. Local flash copy will always be faster than tftp but either is of course erasable as well. I'd start with a local copy if available and then fall back to a remote copy where it's not.
The license keys (technically activation keys on an ASA) need to be generated for you by the TAC in the event of an RMA. Of course if the non-failed unit has the necessary licenses (in 8.3+) you don't also need to add them on the replacement unit as a HA pair shares most licenses (with a few exceptions like Security Plus which is a prerequisite to even enable failover on a 5505 or 5510 or 5512-X).

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    i have 30K photos on one computer at home (24'imac) and my husband and I both have laptops (macbook pro). I have his "hand me downs". When we switched to the 24"imac (from the small imac), I noticed later (I was not here at home for several months) that it seemed that pictures from my canon library from several years ago seemed to be missing. The person who did the changeover (of course) pleaded ignorance and I believe didn't do a proper backup. In fact I have noticed pictures on my husband's or my laptop, I don't see on our "now" primary machine. I reloaded any CD's i had, however, now i have multitude of picture copies as the "CD created" copy now has another name with a completely different date and year! Further, my husband would take his computer with him on vacation and download photos and sometimes i am not sure all the photos made it to the main computer! So i have these separate libraries on separate computers!
    One of my projects in the upcoming year is to consolidate all these libraries so I ensure i have one final version and then set out to reduce, edit these photos, make slide shows, etc with them instead of holding all or most photos on each! It was a learning experience for me as i recently made my first book and found out that i used only 30% of the photos (of 1500 photos) so i think i really need to do a much better editing job to effectively reduce the number of photos. I would also like to even scan my current paper photos, slides, negatives into this, hence creating a large library, slide show, books, etc. In fact I would like to eliminate most of my photo albums!
    My thought is that i need to
    1) consolidate all libraries from all computers into one library on one hard disk
    2) divide libraries by year
    3) OBVIOUSLY---backup the library(s)
    4) reload or keep on the 1TB hard drive all the photos
    5) create an additional backup
    I hope this makes sense. I am just not sure how to go about it. Given all I have read about error messages and libraries gone missing, I am concerned about the process I use to do this. Thanks!

    The best way is create one Library from several is to use iPhoto Library Manager and its' merge command.
    Why do you want to have multiple Libraries? iPhoto is good for 250,000 in a Library.
    However, if you do want toL Managing Multiple Libraries - including moving pics/albums/rolls and metadata between them - is greatly facilitated by using iPhoto Library Manager
    As for scanning? WHat software comes with your Scanner? I have had perfectly acceptable results with Image Capture.
    I am concerned given all that i have read about "missing" iphoto libraries and errors.
    I'm not sure what you mean by this, but it is important to have a back up as protection against problems.
    Regards
    TD

  • What's the best way to load balance multiple protocols on one vserver?

    Hi,
    We have a CSM blade on a 6513, in bridge mode. I'm just wondering what is the best way to serve HTTP and HTTPS (or any two or more ports) from the same group of servers. As I see it, we have two options:
    1. Don't set a port on the vserver, so it is load balancing "any" or "tcp". This is easy but I want to be sure there isn't a downside to this, other than the obvious security issue.
    2. Create multiple vservers and point them at the same serverfarm. I tried this and I got some odd results with the health checks.
    Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

    you listed the only 2 options available.
    The advantage of solution #2 is that you can apply specific config for each protocol ie: for HTTP you can turn 'persistent rebalance' if needed.
    If you want to use specific probes [not icmp], it is also a good practice to create a different serverfarm for each protocol.
    Like this, if the HTTP service goes down but not the server, you can still have other protocols loadbalanced.
    Regards,
    Gilles.
    Thanks for rating this answer.

  • What is the best way to connect a MacBook Pro to my HiFi system ?

    Hi,
    I'm new to Apple support communities having just bought my first Macbook Pro (a 17" 2.5GHz i7 model) and this is my very first community post.
    Im a bit of a Hi-Fi enthusiast, so, with my new MacBook Pro I've taken the opportunity of completely reloading my iTunes library in high quality Apple Lossless format. Took a while but now I've completed the task Im pleased I've done it.
    My question is, what is the best way to connect a Macbook Pro to a high quality Hi-Fi preamp - my Hi-fi system is musical Fidelity, and the pre amp (an A5  CR Pre amp) and this pre amp, which has superb audio quality, only has analogue phono inputs ? 
    I'm interested to understand what both the wired and wireless connection options are. I'm guessing one option must be to use the headphone output, but I have no idea if the output from the headphone socket on my new macbook (which is presumably designed to drive headphones) would be at a suitable level for a phono line level input ?
    Ive also read a few comments about using digital connection - and my second question would be - what is the audio digital connection on my macbook ?
    Aplogies if this question has been asked lots of times before but I've looked through some previous posts and can't find any answers in simple and straightforward language concentrating on the issue of connecting a MacBook Pro to an analogue phono pre amp input ?
    Thanks in anticipation of some advice.

    What is the best way to connect a MacBook Pro to my HiFi system?
    Look at the back of the reciever and see what your connection options are, the front headphone jack is output usually.
    The Mac's  analog audio in/out ports doubles as a optical in/out ports.
    The analog won't over power your amp, it's just a headphonejack, like a powered mic, just enough power to get the signal to the destination in one piece.
    Since you have a analog amp, your stuck with inferior analog connections, however you mentioned you wish to listen to the best sound quality of your lossless music.
    To do that your going to need a decent surround sound system with Toslink optical import jacks, a Toslink stereo jack to regular Toslink adapter, Toslink cable and enable the optical output in your System Preferences >Sound
    Another method is to use a Airport Express, it also has duo analog/opical out port. Then set up the Airport Express for iTunes streaming using the Airport Utility, then in iTunes setup the lower right corner one can set the connection.
    I recommned a Harmon Kardon surround sound system, with their 100 watt satelight speakers and the 200 watt subwoofer. Enable the "concert hall" and other neat effects which will turn your 2.0 (stereo) iTunes music into 4 channel speaker sound filling the room with music and sending the lower channels to the subwoofer.
    It will likely bring tears to your eyes that you can actually hear the full quality of your music as intended, I almost quarranty you will never want listen to music on a crappy iPhone or iPod again.
    If a surround sound system is out of your budget, you can get by using the Harmon Kardon "Go Play" portable stereo and a analog stereo cable.
    If your going to use your analog amp to power reference speakers, then there are various analog adapters of all sorts to make the appropriate connections once you know what they are, check out Radio Shack online for them.

  • What is the best way to add a guest networ?

    What is the best way to configure a guest network? The guest network would have access to the Internet only. The guest network will would not have access to servers. We have a an ASA firewall, Cisco router and L3 switch.
    Thanks.

    You have two options, either use ZBF on the router or use the ASA to firewall the guest network.
    In either case the guest network will be a dmz/zone itself. You will use ACLs to define where hosts can go and cannot go. And you will also set up their translations for when they want to browse the internet.
    For an IOS set up you would have zone guest and zone outside for example and you would define the policies for the zone pair guest-to-out. Also you would define translations for the guest network when it traverses and goes to the outside.
    For an ASA scenario you will have a interface or subinterface guest lets say, and the outside interface. Again you would define policies for traffic traversing these two interfaces and the corresponding translations.
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