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Cisco ASA Series Firewall ASDM Configuration Guide
24
Troubleshooting Connections and Resources
This chapter describes how to troubleshoot the ASA and includes the following sections:
• Testing Your Configuration, page 24-1
• Monitoring Performance, page 24-8
• Monitoring System Resources, page 24-9
• Monitoring Connections, page 24-11
• Monitoring Per-Process CPU Usage, page 24-12
Testing Your Configuration
This section describes how to test connectivity for the single mode ASA or for each security context,
how to ping the ASA interfaces, and how to allow hosts on one interface to ping through to hosts on
another interface.
This section includes the following topics:
• Pinging ASA Interfaces, page 24-1
• Verifying ASA Configuration and Operation, and Testing Interfaces Using Ping, page 24-3
• Determining Packet Routing with Traceroute, page 24-6
• Tracing Packets with Packet Tracer, page 24-7
Pinging ASA Interfaces
To test whether the ASA interfaces are up and running and that the ASA and connected routers are
operating correctly, you can ping the ASA interfaces.
To ping the ASA interfaces, perform the following steps:
Step 1 Draw a diagram of your single-mode ASA or security context that shows the interface names, security
levels, and IP addresses.
Note Although this procedure uses IP addresses, the ping command also supports DNS names and
names that are assigned to a local IP address with the name command.