Cisco Cisco ASA 5512-X Adaptive Security Appliance Release Notes

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Release Notes for the Cisco ASA 5500 Series, Version 8.2(x)
 
  New Features
New Features in Version 8.2(1)
Released: May 6, 2009
Hi
 lists the new features for ASA Version 8.2(1).
Monitoring Features
Smart Call Home
Smart Call Home offers proactive diagnostics and real-time alerts on the adaptive security 
appliance and provides higher network availability and increased operational efficiency. Customers 
and TAC engineers get what they need to resolve problems quickly when an issue is detected.
Note
Smart Call Home server Version 3.0(1) has limited support for the adaptive security 
appliance. See the “Important Notes” for more information.
The following commands were introduced: call-homecall-home send alert-groupcall-home 
test
call-home sendservice call-homeshow call-homeshow call-home registered-module 
status
.
Table 12
New Features for ASA Version 8.2(2) (continued)
Feature
Description
Table 13
New Features for ASA Version 8.2(1)
Feature
Description
Remote Access Features
One Time Password 
Support for ASDM 
Authentication
ASDM now supports administrator authentication using one time passwords (OTPs) supported by 
RSA SecurID (SDI). This feature addresses security concerns about administrators authenticating 
with static passwords. 
New session controls for ASDM users include the ability to limit the session time and the idle time. 
When the password used by the ASDM administrator times out, ASDM prompts the administrator 
to re-authenticate.
The following commands were introduced: http server idle-timeout and http server 
session-timeout
. The http server idle-timeout default is 20 minutes, and can be increased up to a 
maximum of 1440 minutes.