My company has 2 ASA 5515X (running ASA 9.5.2, ASDM 7.5.2, and FirePOWER 5.3.1) configured in a failover pair that we have been running for 8 months. When they were installed, the FirePOWER control license was purchased but not FireSight and in our environment, we would rather stay away from running the virtual appliance needed for FireSight. The FirePOWER module was setup and its status reports as up but the configure and monitor options are non-existent in the ASDM (I do see the ASA FirePOWER Status tab on the home page). The traffic has never been set to run through the FirePOWER module yet. Ideally, we would prefer to manage FirePOWER through the ASDM if possible, which from my understanding, is possible if we upgrade our FirePOWER software module from 5.3.1 to 6.0. My questions are as follows:
1. Is it possible to manage FirePOWER on our 5515Xs through the ASDM if we were running the FirePOWER 6.0 software module?
2. If the answer to question 1 is yes, the only instructions I have found for upgrading from FirePOWER 5.3.1 to 6.0 involve using Defense Center (FireSight?) which we do not have and some have said you have to go from 5.3.1 to 5.4 before you can go to 6.0. Can anyone point me to instructions for upgrading my FirePOWER software module from 5.3.1 to 6.0 (I assume using the CLI which I can access the FirePOWER module through)?
Anything I am overlooking? Is it stupid to want to manage FirePOWER through the ASDM instead of using FireSight? Thanks for the help.
-Dylan
