ASA 5505 Any Connect Error: The AnyConnect package on the secure gateway could not be located.

The AnyConnect package on the secure gateway could not be located. You may be experiencing network connectivity issues. Please try connecting again.

I had uploaded the windows pkg file and nothing else.

If you are connecting from a mac or linux, and getting this error that is because you need to ALSO upload the pkg files for each OS.

How to configure LDAP access for an ASA 5505

Assumptions:

• ASDM is already installed
• You know the password to the ASA

Launch ASDM and select Configuration from the top bar.  On the left hand bard, select Remote Access VPN.  You then should see a heading that says AAA/Local Users. After clicking the + sign, select AAA Server Groups.  You should now see an add button on the right hand side of the screen.  Click add and make up a name for the server group.  This can be anything.  Also set the settings below.

Reactivation Mode: Depletion
Dead Time: 10 Minutes (this was the default setting)
Max Failed Attempts: 3 (this was the default setting)

Click Ok.  You should now see that in the AAA Server Group box at the top of the page.   Highlight the newly created group and click add button beside the servers in the selected group box.  This is what it should be set to:


Interface Name: Inside
Servername or IP Address: Your active directory server IP
Timeout: 10 seconds
Enable LDAP over SSL: Unchecked (this is up to your current setup)
Server Port: 389
Server Type: Microsoft
Base DN: dc=example,dc=com (see note below on how to find this and your user name)
Naming Attribute(s): sAMAccountName
Login DN: CN=John Doe,OU=Custom Users,DC=example,dc=com
Login Password:  Type the password to the user
LDAP Attribute Map: None

Everything else was just left as default.  Click ok, then click apply.  Highlight the server IP in the box and click the test button.  You will see a box pop up.  You will want to choose the Authentication button and type your active directory username and password.  If everything is configured correctly, you should get a message saying "Authentication test to host ip is successful."

***Note:*** Now I had some problems when configuring this.  The first problem I felt deserved its own post.  It's here.

The second problem was getting the right syntax for the LDAP part of it.  You can refer to my post that talks about dsquery more in depth.  It could help you.  It is here.  The two commands that will help you the most are:

dsquery user (This lists every single user.  I only have maybe 20 users so if you have alot more then this, you can use some more specific switches to narrow it down).

dsquery computer (This will show you all the computers.  Same possible problem with dsquery user.  The big thing here is all you need is the dc part of the results).

How to configure remote access for ASDM and SSH for an ASA 5505

Assumptions:

• ASDM is already installed
• You know the password to the ASA

Launch ASDM and click Configuration along the top bar. On the left side pane select Device Management (located on the bottom left).  Next click the + sign beside Management Access.  Next select ASDM/HTTPS/Telnet/SSH.  Click Add on the right hand side.  Select ASDM/HTTPS or SSH, inside or outside (depending on if this is for outside access (WAN) or inside access LAN).  The IP address can be a specific if you want to only allow one address or to allow all address you will want to enter 0.0.0.0.  The same logic goes for the Mask.  Click ok and click apply.  Test and if it works, select Save.  You will need to repeat this if you want too allow several IP address and/or connection types.

You will also have to generate the ssh key.  Type the following from ASDM or through a console connection to the ASA.

conf t
ca generate rsa key 1024
wr mem

**NOTE:  If you see error messages like below, then the key wasn't completed correctly or you skipped that step.***

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
Fail to establish SSH session because RSA host key retrieval failed.

Source: Link

Now you need to configure the authentication piece of remote access for the connection.  On the left side select Users/AAA -> AAA Access.  Under the Authentication Tab, Check SSH and select Server Group: LOCAL.  This will allow you authenticate with a local user account on the ASA while connection through SSH.  I have not tested this authenticating it against Active Directory, but I would imagine you can do this by setting up a AAA group and selected it instead of the LOCAL group.

At the time of writing my ASA was running 8.2(1) and ASDM 6.2(1).

Setting up an ASA 5505

So I setup my first Cisco ASA.  This what I did...

First off this device has 8 Ports.  Ports Ethernet 0/1-7 are the switch ports on the device and the Ethernet 0/0 is the outside interface that will connect to your ISP.  This needs to be set for DHCP unless your ISP requires you to set a static IP.  That static IP would be given to you from your ISP.

Basically follow the guides that come with the ASA.  They will get you to setup everything up to get you started.

First thing is you should go to https://192.168.1.1/admin.  This will bring you to a page that allows you to download the ASDM software.

How to configure remote access: Link 

We had to add one line to configure the ASA to route to the ISP .

Open an SSH client and connect to your ASA's IP.
Login
Type enable
Type config t
Type interface vlan 2 (or whatever vlan your outside interface is in)
Type ip address dhcp setroute
Type exit
Type exit
Type wr mem

Once applying this, I was able to then get to the internet.

How to configure LDAP: Link 
How to configure VPN access on the ASA: Link (add later)
How to configure VPN access on the Cisco IPSec Client: Link (add later)

At the time of writing my ASA was running 8.2(1) and ASDM 6.2(1).