VPN and Cisco PIX515e

[rrgrassi]

Hello everyone,

This seems to be the best place for help fora newbie like me. We have 2 515's in place for failover. A third party vendor set these up and we had a contract with them. Well, there has been a falling out between the owners of each company, and now I cannot get any support. So here is the issue. Our branch in California can VPN in without any issues, but out branch in Georgia cannot. I do not think there is a problem with the config since California can get in. Georgia used to about a week ago. My question is, what is the command line to let me see who and when people access the VPN, and is there a real-time monitoring tool available.

Thanks!

Ralph Grassi

rrgrassi

 

[themut]

show crypto isakmp sa
show crypto ipsec sa

will tell you if the tunnels are up and running, the link below will help you understand the outputs:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk583/tk372/technologies_tech_note09186a00800949c5.shtml#pix_dbgs

 

[rrgrassi]

OK, thanks for all the help. Nothing like being thrown to the wolves to learn how to and why the configs work the way they do.

rrgrassi

 

[br0ck]

you might want to look into setting up a syslog server as well
that might give you a bit more inside as well

I did a FAQ on setting one up if you need help with that