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Tip:ASDM Works on OSX

11th December 2008 By 6 Comments

A workmate expressed surprise when he saw ASDM working natively on my MAC today. Which made me think, maybe you didn’t know either. And I took a photo to prove it. I have been using ASDM for PIX, ASA and FWSM and found it to be very stable.

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  • Tim

    Can’t see it. Must not be true. ;-)

  • http://security-planet.de Karsten

    Perhaps you should mention that this only works good for ASDM 6.x. On older ASDM-versions (I still have some clients with ASAs and PIXes running on 7.x) the ASDM runs really bad on OSX.

  • http://cciehack.wordpress.com/ Wally

    Isn’t it Java based, therefore platform independent if you have a JVM?

    • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

      In principle, Java is not machine or OS dependent. However, most of Cisco’s desktop Java applications (Cisco Security Manager for example) are Windows only.

      I know not why.

  • Jason Beatty

    Hey there,

    I figured this would be no big deal. I’m using ASDM 6.2.1 on my windows machine, and I just copied the .jar files over to my mac. The problem is that I can’t get them to load properly in Snow Leopard.

    What’d you do to get this working?

    • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

      There is more to installing the a JAR than copying the files over. You also need permissions etc. I would always install from the browser to get everything setup correctly.

      Therefore, delete the files, point your browser at the firewall and install the software in the usual way.