Chapter 30 Configuring the ASA CX Module

Monitoring the ASA CX Module

Showing Module Status

See the “ASA CX Status Tab” section on page 4-30in the general operations configuration guide.

Showing Module Statistics

To show module statistics, enter the following command:

Command

Purpose

 

 

show service-policy cxsc

Displays the ASA CX statistics and status per service policy.

 

 

Examples

The following is sample output from the show service-policycommand showing the ASA CX policy and the current statistics as well as the module status when the authentication proxy is disabled:

hostname# show service-policy cxsc Global policy:

Service-policy: global_policy Class-map: bypass

CXSC: card status Up, mode fail-open, auth-proxy disabled

packet input 2626422041, packet output 2626877967, drop 0, reset-drop 0, proxied 0

The following is sample output from the show service-policycommand showing the ASA CX policy and the current statistics as well as the module status when the authentication proxy is enabled; in this case, the proxied counters also increment:

hostname# show

service-policy cxsc

Global policy:

 

 

Service-policy: pmap

 

Class-map: class-default

 

Default Queueing

Set connection policy: random-sequence-number disable

drop 0

CXSC: card status Up, mode fail-open, auth-proxy enabled

packet input 7724, packet output 7701, drop 0, reset-drop 0, proxied 10

Monitoring Module Connections

To show connections through the ASA CX module, enter one of the following commands:

Command

Purpose

 

 

 

 

show

asp

table classify domain cxsc

Shows the NP rules created to send traffic to the ASA CX module.

 

 

 

 

show

asp

table classify domain

Shows the NP rules created for the authentication proxy for the ASA CX

cxsc-auth-proxy

module.

 

 

 

 

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ASA Services Module, ASA 5555-X, ASA 5545-X, ASA 5585-X, ASA 5580 specifications

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