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CHAPTER
3-1
Cisco ASDM User Guide
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3
Defining Preferences and Using Configuration,
Diagnostic, and File Management Tools
This chapter describes the preferences and tools available for configuration, problem diagnosis, and file
management, and includes the following sections:
• Preferences, page 3-1
• Configuration Tools, page 3-3
• Diagnostic Tools, page 3-7
• File Management Tools, page 3-18
Preferences
This feature lets you change the behavior of some ASDM functions between sessions.
To change various settings in ASDM, perform the following steps:
Step 1 In the main ASDM application window, choose Tools > Preferences.
The Preferences dialog box appears, with three tabs: General, Rules Table, and Syslog.
Step 2 Click one of these tabs to define your settings: the General tab to specify general preferences; the Rules
Tables tab to specify preferences for the Rules table; and the Syslog tab to specify the appearance of
syslog messages displayed in the Home pane and to enable the display of a warning message for
NetFlow-related syslog messages.
Step 3 On the General tab, specify the following:
a. Check the Preview commands before sending them to the device check box to view CLI
commands generated by ASDM.
b. Check the Enable cumulative (batch) CLI delivery check box to send multiple commands in a
single group to the adaptive security appliance.
c. Check the Warn that configuration in ASDM is out of sync with the configuration in ASA check
box to be notified when the startup configuration and the running configuration are no longer in sync
with each other.
d. Check the Confirm before exiting ASDM check box to display a prompt when you try to close
ASDM to confirm that you want to exit. This option is checked by default.
e. Check the Show configuration restriction message to read-only user check box to display the
following message to a read-only user at startup. This option is checked by default.