Cisco ASA and Firepower Threat Defense Reimage Guide
3. For the ISA 3000, disable hardware bypass when using the Firepower Management Center; this feature
is only available using Firepower Device Manager in version 6.3 and later.
Procedure
Step 1
Download the FTD boot image (see
ASA on the Management interface.
For the ASA 5506-X, 5508-X, 5516-X, ISA 3000: You must use the Management 1/1 port to download the
image. For the other models, you can use any interface.
Step 2
Download the FTD system software install package (see
FTP server accessible by the ASA on the Management interface.
Step 3
From the console port, reload the ASA:
reload
Example:
ciscoasa# reload
Step 4
Press Esc during the bootup when prompted to reach the ROMMON prompt.
Pay close attention to the monitor.
Example:
[...]
Booting from ROMMON
Cisco Systems ROMMON Version (2.1(9)8) #1: Wed Oct 26 17:14:40 PDT 2011
Platform ASA 5555-X with SW, 8 GE Data, 1 GE Mgmt
Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt boot.
Use SPACE to begin boot immediately.
Boot in
Press Esc at this point.
If you see the following message, then you waited too long, and must reload the ASA again after it finishes
booting:
Launching BootLoader...
Boot configuration file contains 2 entries.
[...]
Step 5
Set the network settings, and load the boot image using the following ROMMON commands:
interface interface_id
address management_ip_address
netmask subnet_mask
server tftp_ip_address
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2) to a TFTP server accessible by the
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2) to an HTTP or
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