Cisco Cisco IPS 4255 Sensor

To verify the security certificate, check the Always trust content from this publisher check box, and 
click Yes. The JAVA Web Start progress dialog box appears, and then the IDM on ip_address dialog box 
appears.

To create a shortcut for the IDM, click Yes. The Cisco IDM Launcher dialog box appears.

You must have JRE 1.5 (JAVA 5) installed to create shortcuts for the IDM. If you have JRE 1.6 
(JAVA 6) installed, the shortcut is created automatically.

To authenticate the IDM, enter your username and password, and click OK. The IDM begins to load. If 
you change panes from Home to Configuration or Monitoring before the IDM has complete 
initialization, a Status dialog box appears with the following message:

Please wait while IDM is loading the current configuration from the sensor.

The main window of the IDM appears.

Both the default username and password are cisco. You were prompted to change the password 
during sensor initialization. 

If you created a shortcut, you can launch the IDM by double-clicking the IDM shortcut icon. You 
can also close the The Cisco IPS Device Manager Version 7.0 window. After you launch the 
IDM, is it not necessary for this window to remain open.

For more information about security and the IDM, refer to 

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For the procedure for initializing the sensor, refer to 

This section describes how to obtain a license key and how to license the sensor using the CLI, the IDM, 
or the IME. It contains the following topics: