Monitoring and Managing Management Connections

In the next two sections I’ll discuss some show, clear, and debug commands you can use to view and manage your ISAKMP/IKE Phase 1 management connections. This chapter introduces these commands and Chapter 19, “Troubleshooting Router Connections,” will provide an in-depth coverage of these commands as they relate to troubleshooting IPsec sessions.

Viewing ISAKMP/IKE Phase 1 Connections

When a management connection is being built, it will go through various states. The current state of this connection can be seen with this command:

Router# show crypto isakmp sa [detail]
						

Example 16-26 illustrates the use of this command. In this example, only one management connection exists. The state column indicates ...

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