Comments on: Tip:ASDM Works on OSX

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:58:37 +0000

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.

By: Jason Beatty

Jason Beatty — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:54:17 +0000

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?

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:32:02 +0000

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.

By: Wally

Wally — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:27:37 +0000

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

By: Karsten

Karsten — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:23:08 +0000

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.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:07:37 +0000

Can’t see it. Must not be true.