[rancid] Re: rancid with Cisco ASA 5520 in Multiple Context Mode

[Gary T. Giesen]

This might be a good application for the usercmd patch. If you search
through the archives you'll find it. Then treat each context as a
separate device, and use the admin context as the passthrough device.

GG

On 4/23/09, Danielson, Graeme <Graeme.Danielson at airnz.co.nz> wrote:
> I think the context configs are stored in the flash: of system and from
> memory are displayable with more(?). Remember though that they are the
> startup configs not the running configs.
> So if you are confident that all your contexts are saved then
> potentially all necessary config info is available from system?
>
> -- Graeme Danielson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
> [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Bob Brunette
> Sent: Friday, 24 April 2009 2:02 a.m.
> To: Sam Stickland
> Cc: Carlo; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: [rancid] Re: rancid with Cisco ASA 5520 in Multiple Context
> Mode
>
> Sam, you're not missing any magic command.
>
> The system context contains the physical interface configurations as
> well as the context configurations, which include the interface and
> resource allocations for each context.  All of this is critical
> information if you need to rebuild a multi-context ASA configuration
> from scratch after a hardware failure, say.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Stickland [mailto:sam_mailinglists at spacething.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 8:55 AM
> To: Bob Brunette
> Cc: Carlo; 'Peter Serwe'; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: rancid with Cisco ASA 5520 in Multiple Context
> Mode
>
> Bob Brunette wrote:
>> Sadly, there is no way to login to the system execution space, and
> that's where the "master" config is that defines all of the
> contexts--you must get to it by issuing a "changeto system" command from
> the admin context
> Really? My system context just shows the context allocations, but not
> the context config. Is there a magic command I'm missing?
>
> Sam
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