Cisco Cisco IPS 4255 Sensor

To authenticate the IDM, enter your username and password, and click OK. Both the default username 
and password are cisco. You were prompted to change the password during sensor initialization. The 
IDM begins to load. If you change panes from Home to Configuration or Monitoring before the IDM has 
completed 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.

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 window. After you launch the IDM, 
it is not necessary for this window to remain open.

The following restrictions and limitations apply to Cisco IDM 7.1.4:

After you upgrade the IPS software on your sensor, you must restart IDM so that the latest features 
for the new software version are present in IDM. 

The IDM opens MySDN from the last browser window you opened, which is the default setting for 
Windows. To change this default behavior, in Internet Explorer, choose Tools > Internet Options, 
and then click the Advanced tab. Scroll down and uncheck the Reuse windows for launching 
shortcuts check box.

For IPS 5.0 and later, you can no longer remove the cisco account. You can disable it using the no 
password cisco command, but you cannot remove it. To use the no password cisco command, there 
must be another administrator account on the sensor. Removing the cisco account through the 
service account is not supported. If you remove the cisco account through the service account, the 
sensor most likely will not boot up, so to recover the sensor you must reinstall the sensor system 
image.

For more information about MySDN, refer to 

MySDN

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