Cisco Cisco ASA 5505 Adaptive Security Appliance

For information on supported platforms and feature licenses, see: 

ASDM Version 6.0(3) supports the following SSMs and releases:

Advanced Inspection and Prevention (AIP) SSM, software Versions 5.0, 5.1, 6.0

Content Security and Control (CSC) SSM, software Version 6.1

Advanced Inspection and Prevention (AIP) SSC, Version 6.2

This section describes how to upgrade ASDM to a new ASDM release. If you have a Cisco.com login, 
you can obtain ASDM from one of the following website:

ASDM 6.0(3) is not backward compatible. If you have an earlier version of ASDM 6.0, or platform 
version earlier than 8.0, ASDM and the platform image should be upgraded at the same time before 
reloading or restarting ASDM.

If you have a previous release of ASDM on your security appliance and want to upgrade to the latest 
release, you can do so from within ASDM. We recommend that you upgrade the ASDM image before 
the platform image. ASDM is backwards compatible, so you can upgrade the platform image using the 
new ASDM; you cannot use an old ASDM with a new platform image.

To upgrade ASDM, perform the following steps:

Download the new ASDM image to your PC.

Launch ASDM.

From the Tools menu:

In ASDM 5.0 and 5.1, click Upload Image from Local PC.

In ASDM 5.2, click Upgrade Software.

When downloading the image from Cisco.com, you must download the images to your local machine 
and continue the upgrade from there.

With ASDM selected, click Browse Local to select the new ASDM image.

To specify the location in Flash memory where you want to install the new image, enter the directory 
path in the field or click Browse Flash.