Cisco ASA 5506-X Configuration Manual page 289

Troubleshooting Connections and Resources
This chapter describes how to troubleshoot the ASA.
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Testing Your Configuration
This section describes how to test connectivity for the single mode ASA or for each security context,
how to ping the ASA interfaces, and how to allow hosts on one interface to ping through to hosts on
another interface.
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Test Basic Connectivity: Pinging Addresses
Ping is a simple command that let's you determine if a particular address is alive and responsive. The
following topics explain more about the command and what types of testing you can accomplish with it.
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What You Can Test Using Ping
When you ping a device, a packet is sent to the device and the device returns a reply. This process enables
network devices to discover, identify, and test each other.
Testing Your Configuration, page 13-1
Monitoring Performance and System Resources, page 13-12
Monitoring Connections, page 13-13
Test Basic Connectivity: Pinging Addresses, page 13-1
Trace Routes to Hosts, page 13-8
Tracing Packets to Test Policy Configuration, page 13-10
What You Can Test Using Ping, page 13-1
Choosing Between ICMP and TCP Ping, page 13-2
Enable ICMP, page 13-2
Ping Hosts, page 13-3
Test ASA Connectivity Systematically, page 13-4
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