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Cisco ASA Standby device “copy TFTP” syntax

That’s a mouthful. I’ve been having a hard time figuring out how to successfully transfer images to the Standby ASA’s flash from the Active’s CLI. Finally figured it out. Here’s the syntax:

failover exec standby copy /noconfirm tftp://{ip address}/{file name} disk0:/{file name}

Without the /noconfirm it’ll fail. You also need a standby ip address on the interface facing the tftp server and I haven’t confirmed this but I think it might also need to be on the same subnet. I’m still having some trouble with a situation where the standby ASA would have to reach another subnet.

  1. nersys
    May 4th, 2011 at 08:42 | #1

    hi,

    we use the management interface to for a link between active/standby asa. it uses a separate network. the tftp is on another subnet. i can’t even ping the tftp server. i can only ping the active interface from the standby ? did you find a solution?

  2. May 4th, 2011 at 09:05 | #2

    The solution’s in the post. That worked for me!

  3. Robert
    September 23rd, 2011 at 09:56 | #3

    Worked great, been looking for this command syntax.

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