Cisco ASA 5540 User Manual

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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Configuring Management Access
Configuring AAA for System Administrators
Prerequisites for Management Accounting
• Configure CLI authentication (see the “Configuring Authentication for CLI and ASDM Access”
section on page 1-20).
• Configure enable authentication (see the “Configuring Authentication to Access Privileged EXEC
Mode (the enable Command)” section on page 1-20).
Guidelines and Limitations
This section includes the guidelines and limitations for this feature.
Context Mode Guidelines
Supported in single and multiple context mode.
Firewall Mode Guidelines
Supported in routed and transparent firewall mode.
IPv6 Guidelines
Supports IPv6.
Default Settings
Default Command Privilege Levels
By default, the following commands are assigned to privilege level 0. All other commands are assigned
to privilege level 15.
• show checksum
• show curpriv
• enable
• help
• show history
• login
• logout
• pager
• show pager
• clear pager
• quit
• show version
If you move any configure mode commands to a lower level than 15, be sure to move the configure
command to that level as well, otherwise, the user will not be able to enter configuration mode.
To view all privilege levels, see the “Viewing Local Command Privilege Levels” section on page 1-28.

Cisco ASA 5540 Specifications

General

Firewall Throughput	650 Mbps
Maximum Firewall Connections	400, 000
VPN Throughput	225 Mbps
Maximum VPN Peers	5, 000
High Availability	Active/Active, Active/Standby
IPSec VPN Throughput	225 Mbps
Memory	1 GB
IPS Throughput	225 Mbps
Security Contexts	50
Flash Memory	64 MB
Form Factor	1U
Power Supply	Dual
Interfaces	4 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet