Hello Brian
From the research that I did, I find that the ASA does not support soft reconfiguration, at least not on version 9.6 or earlier. Take a look at this Cisco community thread and related links:
The clear bgp command can be used on a Cisco ASA to either clear all BGP connections, clear connections of particular peer groups, of particular neighbors, or even of specific prefixes. The details of this command can be found here:
On my ASA I have the following:
myASA# debug ip bgp ?
A.B.C.D BGP neighbor address
events BGP events
in BGP Inbound information
ipv4 Address family
ipv6 Address family
keepalives BGP keepalives
out BGP Outbound information
range BGP dynamic range
rib-filter Next hop route watch filter events
updates BGP updates
<cr>
myASA# debug ip bgp
So it is possible to debug BGP events using a command similar to debug ip bgp 10.10.10.1 where the IP address is that of the BGP neighbor. Just for reference, I have an ASA 5506 running version 9.8(2).
It is true that the commands for BGP as well as in general are somewhat different on a Cisco ASA compared to a Cisco IOS device. You may find this documentation helpful in further exploring the ASA’s BGP capabilities:
I hope this has been helpful!
Laz