Chapter 30 Configuring the ASA CX Module

Monitoring the ASA CX Module

ciscoasa# show asp drop

 

 

 

 

 

Frame drop:

 

 

 

 

 

 

CXSC

Module received packet with bad TLV's

(cxsc-bad-tlv-received)

2

CXSC

Module requested drop (cxsc-request)

 

 

 

1

CXSC

card is down (cxsc-fail-close)

 

 

 

1

CXSC

config removed for flow (cxsc-fail)

 

 

 

3

CXSC

Module received malformed packet (cxsc-malformed-packet)

1

Last clearing: 18:12:58 UTC May 11 2012 by

enable_15

 

 

Flow drop:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flow

terminated by CXSC (cxsc-request)

 

 

 

2

Flow

reset by CXSC (reset-by-cxsc)

 

 

 

1

CXSC

fail-close (cxsc-fail-close)

 

 

 

 

1

Last clearing: 18:12:58 UTC May 11 2012 by

enable_15

 

 

The following is sample output from the show asp event dp-cpcxsc-msgcommand:

ciscoasa# show asp event dp-cp cxsc-msg

 

 

 

 

DP-CP EVENT QUEUE

QUEUE-LEN

HIGH-WATER

 

 

Punt Event

Queue

 

0

5

 

 

Identity-Traffic Event Queue

 

0

0

 

 

General Event Queue

 

0

4

 

 

Syslog

Event Queue

 

4

90

 

 

Non-Blocking Event Queue

 

0

2

 

 

Midpath High Event Queue

 

0

53

 

 

Midpath Norm Event Queue

8074

8288

 

 

SRTP Event

Queue

 

0

0

 

 

HA Event Queue

 

0

0

 

 

Threat-Detection Event Queue

 

0

3

 

 

ARP Event Queue

 

0

2048

 

 

IDFW Event

Queue

 

0

0

 

 

CXSC Event

Queue

 

0

1

 

 

EVENT-TYPE

ALLOC ALLOC-FAIL ENQUEUED ENQ-FAIL

RETIRED 15SEC-RATE

cxsc-msg

1

0

1

0

1

0

The following is sample output from the show conn detail command:

 

ciscoasa# show conn detail

 

 

 

 

 

0 in use, 105 most used

 

 

 

 

 

Flags: A -

awaiting inside ACK to SYN, a -

awaiting outside ACK to SYN,

 

 

B -

initial SYN from outside, b - TCP

state-bypass or nailed, C - CTIQBE media,

 

D -

DNS, d - dump, E - outside back

connection, F

- outside FIN, f - inside FIN,

 

G -

group, g - MGCP, H - H.323, h -

H.225.0, I - inbound data,

 

 

i -

incomplete, J - GTP, j - GTP data, K - GTP t3-response

 

 

k -

Skinny media, M - SMTP data, m - SIP media, n

- GUP

 

 

O -

outbound data, P - inside back connection, p - Phone-proxy TFTP connection,

 

q -

SQL*Net data, R - outside acknowledged FIN,

 

 

 

R -

UDP SUNRPC, r - inside acknowledged FIN, S - awaiting inside SYN,

 

s -

awaiting outside SYN, T - SIP, t - SIP transient, U - up,

 

 

V -

VPN orphan, W - WAAS,

 

 

 

 

 

 

X -

inspected by service module

 

 

 

 

TCP outside 208.80.152.2:80 inside 192.168.1.20:59928, idle 0:00:10, bytes 79174, flags

XUIO

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