Reloading By Removing And Re-Adding The Context; Viewing Context Information - Cisco FirePOWER ASA 5500 series Configuration Manual

Chapter 6 Adding and Managing Security Contexts

Reloading by Removing and Re-adding the Context

To reload the context by removing the context and then re-adding it, perform the steps in the following
sections:
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Monitoring Security Contexts
This section describes how to view and monitor context information, and includes the following topics:
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Viewing Context Information

From the system execution space, you can view a list of contexts including the name, allocated
interfaces, and configuration file URL.
From the system execution space, view all contexts by entering the following command:
hostname# show context [name | detail| count]
The detail option shows additional information. See the following sample displays below for more
information.
If you want to show information for a particular context, specify the name.
The count option shows the total number of contexts.
The following is sample output from the show context command. The following sample display shows
three contexts:
hostname# show context
Context Name
*admin
contexta
contextb
Total active Security Contexts: 3
Table 6-2
Table 6-2
Field
Context Name
Interfaces
URL
OL-10088-01
"Automatically Assigning MAC Addresses to Context Interfaces" section on page 6-11
"Configuring a Security Context" section on page 6-7
Viewing Context Information, page 6-15
Viewing Resource Allocation, page 6-16
Viewing Resource Usage, page 6-19
Monitoring SYN Attacks in Contexts, page 6-20
Interfaces
GigabitEthernet0/1.100
GigabitEthernet0/1.101
GigabitEthernet0/1.200
GigabitEthernet0/1.201
GigabitEthernet0/1.300
GigabitEthernet0/1.301
shows each field description.
show context Fields
Description
Lists all context names. The context name with the asterisk (*) is the admin context.
The interfaces assigned to the context.
The URL from which the security appliance loads the context configuration.
URL
disk0:/admin.cfg
disk0:/contexta.cfg
disk0:/contextb.cfg
Cisco Security Appliance Command Line Configuration Guide
Managing Security Contexts
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