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Chapter11 Configuring Multiple Context Mode
Feature History for Multiple Context Mode
Feature History for Multiple Context Mode
Table11-2 lists each feature change and the platform release in which it was implemented. ASDM is
backwards-compatible with multiple platform releases, so the specific ASDM release in which support
was added is not listed.
Table11-2 Feature History for Multiple Context Mode
Feature Name
Platform
Releases Feature Information
Multiple security contexts 7.0(1) Multiple context mode was introduced.
We introduced the following screens: Configuration >
Context Management.
Automatic MAC address assignment 7.2(1) Automatic assignment of MAC address to context interfaces
was introduced.
We modified the following screen: Configuration > Context
Management > Security Contexts.
Resource management 7.2(1) Resource management was introduced.
We introduced the following screen: Configuration >
Context Management > Resource Management.
Virtual sensors for IPS 8.0(2) The AIP SSM running IPS software Version 6.0 and above
can run multiple virtual sensors, which means you can
configure multiple security policies on the AIP SSM. You
can assign each context or single mode ASA to one or more
virtual sensors, or you can assign multiple security contexts
to the same virtual sensor.
We modified the following screen: Configuration > Context
Management > Security Contexts.
Automatic MAC address assignment
enhancements
8.0(5)/8.2(2) The MAC address format was changed to use a prefix, to use
a fixed starting value (A2), and to use a different scheme for
the primary and secondary unit MAC addresses in a failover
pair. The MAC addresses are also now persistent across
reloads. The command parser now checks if auto-generation
is enabled; if you want to also manually assign a MAC
address, you cannot start the manual MAC address with A2.
We modified the following screen: Configuration > Context
Management > Security Contexts.