Cisco PDM Help

[t_r_nelson]

I was editing some entries in the Cisco PIX 515 here at my workplace. I deleted something in the wrong location before I removed it from another location. It has locked the PDM from web access. I can still telnet to it, but the GUI won't respond.

I need to make some further changes today. In the past, in order to reset the PDM, I would need to reboot the firewall. It's a quick process, but it drops the users connections to the outsourced Citrix server. Plus, it would mean IT (me) has goofed up, and I don't want to have to admit that. :blush:

I am looking for a way to restart the PDM without having to reboot the PIX. Does anyone here know if that can be done?

[sc302 Veteran]

do not use the PDM for any reason other than reporting. There is a bug with the PDM that cisco has never fixed. Cisco is aware of the issues with the PDM and recommends to not use it at all. But it is there for you to use.

The PDM ends up creating an obscene amount of code in the pix. If it has worked for you great, consider yourself lucky. I have had the luck of it screwing up a vpn tunnel so bad that it took a cisco engineer an 8 hr day to figure out heads or tails of what was going on. Every engineer that you will ever get on the phone at cisco will tell you to never use the PDM. As far as getting it working you can try a reboot, but if you saved any changes between when it failed and you going into a telnet or ssh session do not expect it to come back.

[t_r_nelson]

I am not a fan of the PDM. We are moving off it by the end of Jan. But that doesn't help the immediate need of restarting the PDM. I am trying to limp it along until the other one is up an running.

[sc302 Veteran]

I know that doesn't help, but you know the answer to the problem, reboot.

[offroadaaron]

Just learn the cmd line its not that hard if you can see an already working config.