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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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6 Responses to “Tip:ASDM Works on OSX”
  1. Tim says:

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

  2. Karsten says:

    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.

  3. Wally says:

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

    • Greg Ferro says:

      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.

  4. Jason Beatty says:

    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?

    • Greg Ferro says:

      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.

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