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ASA With mutlible context

The Cisco ASA has a feature called a Context, or a virtual Firewall. As a part of this feature there is a context called the admin context, from this context you can control all other contexts. So with Expect I would write a script with following commands to backup the config. I there a way to create custom backup script for this ASA?

conf t

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sh Run

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changeto context DMZ

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sh run

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changeto system

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sh Run

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So I would like to run this series of commands each time the backup is run for this asa and stroes in the same place as the config file.

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chris.lapoint

It appears you are attempting to backup 3 different configs as part of a single download running config command. This isn't possible today. However, you could save the output of running all the commands to a file using a job and command script. I'll add an enhancement request to allow for multiple running configs to be downloaded simultaneously.

cdumont

can you give an example of the job and command script.

chris.lapoint

Sure. Schedule an Execute Command Script Job and just paste the commands you listed above in the Command Script tab. Cirrus will take of logging onto the device and executing the commands. You'll want to go to Notifications tab and check the box next to save Job results and specify the folder you'd like these results to be stored.

ktm

Does NCM support multiple context firewalls yet?

chris.lapoint

The ability to support custom config types per device (e.g. context 1, context 2, context 3, etc.) is on our roadmap. However, today we only provide the ability to manage 2 config types per device (startup and running).

In the interim, one possible workaround is to create a duplicate of the device to store the other config types. See this post for details:

mattkinger

Hi,

I know this is an old post, but has Cisco Contexts come into support using NCM yet? i'm not getting anyb helpful results when searching for it.

Thanks

Matt

cdumont

I don't think so, what I finally did was write a the series of commands changing contexts from the admin context to other contexts. This created a backup each context in a single file.

mattkinger

yeah, that's what i did as well. created a task and put in the commands required.

Thanks for your response!

Matt

fcaron

This might help

http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/158625#158625

aaswi

see updated thread: Adding an ASA with multiple context firewall in NCM