CISCO ASA

Cisco ASA stands for Adaptive Security Appliance. Cisco ASA is a security device that combines firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) capabilities.

Integration of Cisco ASA with DNIF

The following configurations should be done to forward Cisco ASA firewall logs to DNIF.

  • Log in to Cisco ASA device using CLI, and execute the following command to access privileged EXEC mode:
$ enable
  • Execute the following command to access global configuration mode:
$ conf t
  • Execute the following command to enable logging:
$ logging enable
  • Execute the following command to configure the logging details:
$ logging console warning
$ logging trap warning
$ logging asdm warning
  • Execute the following command to configure logging to DNIF Adapter:
$ logging host <interface> <IP address>
  • Interface is the name of the Cisco adaptive security appliance interface.

  • IP address is the IP address of DNIF Adapter.

  • Execute the following command to view all available interfaces of Cisco device.
$ show interfaces
  • Disable the output object name option to ensure that the logs use IP addresses and not the object names.
$ no names
  • Exit configuration
$ exit
 
  • Save changes
$ write mem

Cisco ASA firewall logs are now streamed to DNIF.