Cisco ASA IOS Upgrade

These commands are needed to upgrade the software image as well as the ASDM image and make it as a boot image at the next reload.

ASA#copy tftp [[flash:/disk0:][software image name/asdm image name]]

!— Command to set an image as bootup or specify the
!— ASDM image file.

ASA(config)#boot system [flash:/disk0:]/[software image name]

!— Save active configuration to the Flash.

ASA#write memory

!— Reboot the security appliance and load
!— with the new boot image as per the configuration file.

ASA#reload

Example:

ASA5510#copy tftp disk0:

Address or name of remote host []? 172.16.31.1
Source filename []? asa722-k8.bin
Destination filename [asa722-k8.bin]?
Accessing tftp://172.16.31.1/asa722-k8.bin…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Writing file disk0:/asa722-k8.bin…
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8312832 bytes copied in 163.350 secs (50998 bytes/sec)

ASA5510#show disk0:
-#- –length– —–date/time—— path
  6 5124096    Jan 01 2003 00:06:22 asa702-k8.bin
  7 5623108    Feb 12 2007 00:23:48 asdm-522.bin
 10 5539756    Feb 12 2007 00:14:18 asdm-521.bin
 11 8294400    Dec 07 2006 05:47:20 asa721-24-k8.bin
 12 6002680    Dec 21 2006 03:58:30 asdm-52034.bin
 13 8312832    Feb 12 2007 22:46:30 asa722-k8.bin

23949312 bytes available (38932480 bytes used)

!— Command to set “asa722-k8.bin” as the boot image.

ASA5510(config)# boot system disk0:/asa722-k8.bin

!— Command to set “asdm-522.bin” as the ASDM image.

ASA5510(config)# asdm image disk0:/asdm-522.bin
ASA5510# write memory
ASA5510# reload