ASA name commands?

[raza555]

Hi,

I want to tidy up the old ASA configurations and found that in different ASA hundreds of IP Address to Name mapping exist.

I have already configured the “no names” and IP Address to name is not happening,

Q1: Did deleting the name commands will effect any other configuration e.g. ACL, NAT etc. Is it can create any outage.

Q2: Is any quick way to delete below types of hundreds of mappings?

name 10.10.10.1 Test_Server_1

name 10.10.10.2 Test_Server_2

name 10.10.10.3 Test_Server_3

Curently I know only that we can delete them  as below;

conf t

no name Test_Server_1

no name Test_Server_1

no name Test_Server_1

Thanks

[Jouni Forss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

To my understanding deleting "name" configurations only has the cosmetic effect of removing the IP address to name mapping from the configurations that support it. It should not remove any configurations. Atleast I have not seen it happen the few times I have tested this. I personally never used this configuration as for someone configuring through the CLI it just causes more problems.

I think the only command that could clear ALL of those configurations would be

clear configure name

For example

ASA(config)# name 1.1.1.1 test

ASA(config)# name 2.2.2.2 test2

ASA(config)# name 3.3.3.3 test3

ASA(config)# sh run names

name 1.1.1.1 test

name 2.2.2.2 test2

name 3.3.3.3 test3

ASA(config)# clear configure name

ASA(config)# sh run name

ASA(config)#

- Jouni

[Jouni Forss]

Hi,

Heres link to the Command Reference with regards to the command I mentioned

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/command-reference/cmdref/c3.html#pgfId-2452106

Though it doesnt really contain much description.

- Jouni

[raza555]

Thats great.

Thanks