Introduction to ASDM

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Setting up ASDM
• Initial setup
• Functional screens
• Interface management
• System clock
• Configuration management
• Remote system management
• System maintenance
• System monitoring

Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) provides an easy-to-navigate and simple graphical interface to set up and manage the different features that Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) provides. It is bundled with a variety of administrative and monitoring tools to check the health of Cisco ASA and the traffic traversing through it. This chapter introduces the ASDM GUI and helps you to complete the initial configuration parameters.