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How to SSH into a Cisco ASA firewall with Windows Powershell?

Would like use powershell to do some monitoring of a VPN tunnel and if outage detected, auto reset the tunnel.

Can Windows powershell SSH into a Cisco ASA firewall for issuing a firewall command?

Solution

  • There is an SSH module. I've only limited experience using it to change ILO passwords on HP servers. However, I'm confident it can be leveraged for more elaborate work.

    You can install with:

    Install-Module Posh-SSH

    Make sure to do this in an elevated console. I'd also point out there are other SSH modules, I can't vouch even this much but you may want to play with them. You can find them with something like:

    Find-Module *SSH*