Cisco Cisco ASA for Nexus 1000V Series Switch

 lists the supported and recommended client operating systems and Java for ASDM.

See 

 for the minimum supported version 

of ASDM for each ASA and SSM version.

ASDM 6.2(1) and later is not supported on the PIX platforms. The last ASDM version supported on the 
PIX is 6.1(5).

Although ASDM 6.3 supports many ASA versions, the ASDM 6.3 documentation and online help only 
include features for ASA 8.3. For older ASA versions, you might find that using the ASDM 6.3 
documentation is inaccurate for your older feature set. Instead, refer to the ASDM guide in which 
support for your platform version was added (to see when support was added, see 

 for the minimum 

supported version of ASDM for each ASA version; this version is the one where support was added). 
Although the specific information about the ASDM GUI might be inaccurate in that guide, the platform 
feature set is documented correctly.

1.

Obtain Sun Java from 

2.

ASDM requires an SSL connection from the browser to the adaptive security appliance.  By default, Firefox does not support base encryption (DES) for 
SSL and therefore requires the adaptive security appliance to have a strong encryption (3DES/AES) license. As a workaround, you can enable the 
security.ssl3.dhe_dss_des_sha setting in Firefox. See 

 to learn how to change hidden configuration preferences.

Microsoft Windows (English and Japanese):

7

Vista

2003 Server

XP

6 through 10. 
Version 11 or later 
is not supported.

1.5 or later

No support

5.0 (1.5.0)

6.0

Apple Macintosh OS X:

10.6

10.5

10.4

No support

1.5 or later

2.0 or later

5.0 (1.5.0)

6.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (GNOME or 
KDE):

Desktop

Desktop with Workstation

N/A

1.5 or later

N/A

5.0 (1.5.0)

6.0