Cisco Cisco ASA 5550 Adaptive Security Appliance

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 lists the new features for ASA Version 8.0(5)/ASDM Version 6.2(3).

Version 8.0(5) is not supported on the PIX security appliance.

DHCP RFC 
compatibility (rfc3011, 
rfc3527) to resolve 
routing issues

This enhancement introduces adaptive security appliance support for DHCP RFCs 3011 (The IPv4 
Subnet Selection Option) and 3527 (Link Selection Sub-option for the Relay Agent Information 
Option). For each DHCP server configured for VPN clients, you can now configure the adaptive 
security appliance to send the Subnet Selection option or the Link Selection option.

The following screen was modified: Remote Access VPN > Network Access > IPsec connection 
profiles > Add/Edit.

IPv6 Support in Failover 
Configurations

IPv6 is now supported in failover configurations. You can assign active and standby IPv6 addresses 
to interfaces and use IPv6 addresses for the failover and Stateful Failover interfaces.

The following screens were modified:

Configuration > Device Management > High Availability > Failover > Setup
Configuration > Device Management > High Availability > Failover > Interfaces
Configuration > Device Management > High Availability > HA/Scalability Wizard

No notifications when 
interfaces are brought up 
or brought down during 
a switchover event

To distinguish between link up/down transitions during normal operation from link up/down 
transitions during failover, no link up/link down traps are sent during a failover. Also, no syslog 
messages about link up/down transitions during failover are sent.

100 AAA Server Groups You can now configure up to 100 AAA server groups; the previous limit was 15 server groups.

The following screen was modified: Configuration > Device Management > Users/AAA > AAA 
Server Groups.

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.

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 screen was introduced: Configuration> Device Management> Smart Call Home.