How can the Primary/Secondary model name suffix on ASA firewall models be disabled in CA Spectrum

Products

• CA Spectrum
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

When modeling Cisco ASA firewalls, Spectrum appends _primary or _secondary to the model name to represent when the model is in a primary or secondary state.  This is detailed in our TechDocs:

TechDocs : DX NetOps Spectrum 22.2 : Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) Devices Failover

When failover occurs on the primary device, secondary firewall device should become Active and primary firewall device becomes Standby.

The following text: “_Primary” & “_Secondary” is appended to the model name automatically in the topology view.

Environment

DX NetOps Spectrum 20.2 or later

Resolution

Prior to Spectrum release 10.2.2 this was not configurable.  Spectrum release 10.2.2 (and greater) has been enhanced to allow for the addition of the _primary and _secondary suffix to be removed.

A new attribute has been introduced on the Cisco ASA firewall modeltype:

suffixFWModeToModelName - attribute id 0x00215325

By default, this value is true.  Change this to false by using the Attribute Editor on all Cisco ASA models that you want to disable this functionality for.

On the next poll interval the _primary and/or _secondary suffix will be removed from the model name.