Network Insight for Cisco ASA Firewalls Getting Started Guide

Network Insight for Cisco ASA combines the network monitoring capabilities of NPM with the configuration capabilities of NCM to help you monitor and manage your ASA infrastructure to provide visibility into the health and performance of your firewall and help ensure service availability for services dependent on your firewall.

After you have installed NPM and NCM, use the topics below to get started with NPM and NCM and automate the monitoring and management of your ASA infrastructure.

• Monitor ASA firewalls

  • Set up monitoring Cisco ASA firewalls
  • Understand ASA platform health
  • Monitor VPN tunnels on ASA firewalls

• Manage ACLs on Cisco ASA and Nexus devices

  • Display the ACLs on a device
  • Compare ACLs on the same device or different devices.
  • Display the rules in an ACL
  • Identify rules that have not been applied
  • Investigate overlapping rules in an ACL
  • Display information about objects or objects groups in a rule