Cisco ASA Series User Manual

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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Accessing the ASA Services Module Command-Line Interface
Logging Out of a Console Session
This section includes the following topics:
• Logging Out, page 1-5
• Killing an Active Console Connection, page 1-5
Logging Out
If you do not log out of the ASASM, the console connection persists; there is no timeout. To end the
ASASM console session and access the switch CLI, perform the following steps.
To kill another user’s active connection, which may have been unintentionally left open, see the “Killing
an Active Console Connection” section on page 1-5.
Detailed Steps
Step 1 To return to the switch CLI, type the following:
Ctrl-Shift-6, x
You return to the switch prompt:
asasm# [Ctrl-Shift-6, x]
Router#
Note Shift-6 on US and UK keyboards issues the caret (^) character. If you have a different keyboard
and cannot issue the caret (^) character as a standalone character, you can temporarily or
permanently change the escape character to a different character. In Cisco IOS, before you
session to the ASASM, use the terminal escape-character ascii_number command (to change
temporarily) or the default escape-character ascii_number command (to change permanently).
For example, to temporarily change the sequence to Ctrl-w, x, enter
terminal escape-character 23. The next time you log into the switch, the escape character
reverts back to the default.
Killing an Active Console Connection
Because of the persistence of a console connection, if you do not properly log out of the ASASM, the
connection may exist longer than intended. If someone else wants to log in, they will need to kill the
existing connection.
Detailed Steps
Step 1 From the switch CLI, show the connected users using the show users command. A console user is called
“con”. The Host address shown is 127.0.0.slot0, where slot is the slot number of the module.
Router# show users
For example, the following command output shows a user “con” on line 0 on a module in slot 2:
Router# show users

Cisco ASA Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	ASA Series
Category	Network Hardware
Language	English