Feature History For Multiple Context Mode - Cisco ASA 5505 Configuration Manual

Chapter 6 Configuring Multiple Context Mode

Feature History for Multiple Context Mode

Table 6-2
backwards-compatible with multiple platform releases, so the specific ASDM release in which support
was added is not listed.
Table 6-2 Feature History for Multiple Context Mode
Feature Name
Multiple security conexts
Automatic MAC address assignment
Resource management
Virtual sensors for IPS
Automatic MAC address assignement
enhancements
OL-20339-01
lists each feature change and the platform release in which it was implemented. ASDM is
Platform
Releases
7.0(1)
7.2(1)
7.2(1)
8.0(2)
8.0(5)/8.2(2)
Feature History for Multiple Context Mode
Feature Information
Multiple context mode was introduced.
The following screens were introduced: Configuration >
Context Management.
Automatic assignment of MAC address to context interfaces
was introduced.
The following screen was modified: Configuration >
Context Management > Security Contexts.
Resource management was introduced.
The following screen was introduced: Configuration >
Context Management > Resource Management.
The AIP SSM running IPS software Version 6.0 and above
can run multiple virtual sensors, which means you can
configure multiple security policies on the AIP SSM. You
can assign each context or single mode adaptive security
appliance to one or more virtual sensors, or you can assign
multiple security contexts to the same virtual sensor.
The following screen was modified: Configuration >
Context Management > Security Contexts.
The MAC address format was changed to use a prefix, to use
a fixed starting value (A2), and to use a different scheme for
the primary and secondary unit MAC addresses in a failover
pair. The MAC addresess are also now persistent accross
reloads. The command parser now checks if auto-generation
is enabled; if you want to also manually assign a MAC
address, you cannot start the manual MAC address with A2.
The following screen was modified: Configuration >
Context Management > Security Contexts.
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