Export physical and logical details on ASA 5520 and 8.0 software

Question

Hello...does anybody know if there is any way to export details of the physical and logical interface details (including interface descriptions) to Excel, PDF or and other format from the command line or ASDM? 
Thanks,
John

Answer 1

Export directly in xls, xlsx or pdf - no.
The output of "show run interface" or "show interface" is pretty structured however and easily parsed by Excel - either manually or via a macro. See output below (you can omit the interface identifier to get all interfaces. I used one for brevity.)
One can build a script to log in, perform an arbitrary command logging the output to a file which can then be massaged to extract the information you want in a suitable format (csv, etc.). Once in Excel it can be saved as pdf if you're so inclined.
Of couse, some of the full-featured network management tools do a lot of this (and lots more) if you have them.
ASA-1# sh run int eth0/0
interface Ethernet0/0
nameif outside
security-level 0
ip address x.x.x.x 255.255.255.224
ASA-1#
ASA-1# sh int eth0/0
Interface Ethernet0/0 "outside", is up, line protocol is up
  Hardware is i82546GB rev03, BW 1000 Mbps, DLY 10 usec
Auto-Duplex(Full-duplex), Auto-Speed(1000 Mbps)
Input flow control is unsupported, output flow control is unsupported
MAC address 0013.c480.6b50, MTU 1500
IP address x.x.x.x, subnet mask 255.255.255.224
14156274 packets input, 16095096189 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 44764 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
0 pause input, 0 resume input
0 L2 decode drops
8548524 packets output, 1006461151 bytes, 0 underruns
0 pause output, 0 resume output
0 output errors, 64 collisions, 6 interface resets
95 late collisions, 627 deferred
0 input reset drops, 0 output reset drops, 0 tx hangs
input queue (blocks free curr/low): hardware (255/230)
output queue (blocks free curr/low): hardware (255/125)
  Traffic Statistics for "outside":
14156267 packets input, 15839536990 bytes
8548619 packets output, 820243613 bytes
39502 packets dropped
      1 minute input rate 2 pkts/sec,  349 bytes/sec
      1 minute output rate 2 pkts/sec,  425 bytes/sec
      1 minute drop rate, 0 pkts/sec
      5 minute input rate 2 pkts/sec,  2091 bytes/sec
      5 minute output rate 1 pkts/sec,  352 bytes/sec
      5 minute drop rate, 0 pkts/sec