Tip:ASDM Works on OSX
December 11, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 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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Can’t see it. Must not be true.
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.
Isn’t it Java based, therefore platform independent if you have a JVM?
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.
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?
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.