ASA Command Line Interface Documentation

CDO fully supports the ASA command line interface. We provide a terminal-like interface within CDO for users to send ASA commands to single devices and multiple devices simultaneously. The ASA command line interface documentation is extensive. Rather than recreating parts of it in the CDO documentation, here are pointers to the ASA CLI documentation on Cisco.com.

ASA Command Line Interface Configuration Guides

Starting with ASA version 9.1, the ASA CLI Configuration Guide is broken into three separate books:

  • CLI Book 1: Cisco ASA Series General Operations CLI Configuration Guide

  • CLI Book 2: Cisco ASA Series Firewall CLI Configuration Guide

  • CLI Book 3: Cisco ASA Series VPN CLI Configuration Guide

You can reach the ASA CLI Configuration Guides on Cisco.com by navigating, Support > Products by Category > Security > Firewalls > ASA 5500 > Configure > Configuration Guides.

A Few Specific ASA Command Line Interface Configuration Guide Sections

Filtering show and more Command Output. You can learn about filtering show command output by using regular expressions in CLI Book 1: Cisco ASA Series General Operations CLI Configuration Guide under Filter show and more Command Output.

ASA Command Reference

The ASA Command Reference Guide is an alphabetical listing of all the ASA commands and their options. The ASA command reference is not version specific. It is published in four books:

  • Cisco ASA Series Command Reference, A - H Commands

  • Cisco ASA Series Command Reference, I - R Commands

  • Cisco ASA Series Command Reference, S Commands

  • Cisco ASA Series Command Reference, T - Z Commands and IOS Commands for the ASASM

You can reach the ASA Command Reference Guides on Cisco.com by navigating, Support > Products by Category > Security > Firewalls > ASA 5500 > Reference Guides > Command References > ASA Command References.