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Cisco ASDM User Guide
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Chapter 1 Welcome to ASDM
About the ASDM Interface
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Status Bar
The status bar appears at the bottom of the ASDM window, and shows the following areas from left to
right.
• Status—Shows the status of the configuration (for example, “Device configuration loaded
successfully.”).
• User Name—Shows the username of the ASDM user. If you logged in without a username, the
username is “admin.”
• User Privilege—Shows the privilege of the ASDM user.
• Commands Ignored by ASDM—Click the icon to show a list of commands from your configuration
that ASDM did not process. These commands will not be removed from the configuration. See
Show
Commands Ignored by ASDM on Device for more information.
• Status of Connection to Device—Shows the ASDM connection status to the adaptive security
appliance. See
Connection to Device for more information.
• Save to Flash Needed—Shows that you made configuration changes in ASDM, but that you still
must save the running configuration to the startup configuration.
• Refresh Needed—Shows that you need to refresh the configuration from the adaptive security
appliance to ASDM, because the configuration on the adaptive security appliance changed (for
example, you made a change to the configuration through the CLI).
• SSL Secure—Shows that the connection to ASDM is secure because it uses SSL.
• Time—Shows the time that is set on the switch that contains the adaptive security appliance.