Cisco ASA

I have never been a fan of the PDM used to manage the PIX. It has always been slow, buggy, and not as intuitive as other firewall interfaces.

Today I had two ASA5550 firewalls to configure for an upcoming project. My opinion of the ASDM, well done Cisco. The ASDM makes managing the ASA a dream compared to using the PDM for the PIX.

The user interface is intuitive, it is straight forward to manage the objects and rules, it is much faster than the PDM, and after a full day of working in the interface, not one crash.