Cisco Cisco IPS 4255 Sensor

Verify your new sensor version:

sensor# show version

Application Partition:

Cisco Intrusion Prevention System, Version 6.0(5)E.3

Host:

    Realm Keys          key1.0

Signature Definition:

    Signature Update    S291.0                   2007-06-18

    Virus Update        V1.2                     2005-11-24

OS Version:             2.4.30-IDS-smp-bigphys

Platform:               ASA-SSM-20

Serial Number:          P300000220

No license present

Sensor up-time is 13 days.

Using 1039052800 out of 2093682688 bytes of available memory (49% usage)

system is using 17.8M out of 29.0M bytes of available disk space (61% usage)

application-data is using 49.9M out of 166.6M bytes of available disk space (32% usage)

boot is using 37.8M out of 68.5M bytes of available disk space (58% usage)

MainApp          N-2007_JUN_19_16_45   (Release)   2007-06-19T17:10:20-0500   Running

AnalysisEngine   N-2007_JUN_19_16_45   (Release)   2007-06-19T17:10:20-0500   Running

CLI              N-2007_JUN_19_16_45   (Release)   2007-06-19T17:10:20-0500

Upgrade History:

  IPS-K9-6.0-4-E.2 15:31:13 UTC Mon Sep 10 2007

Recovery Partition Version 1.1 - 6.0(5)E.3

sensor#

For 5.x, you receive a message saying the upgrade is of unknown type. You can ignore this message.

The operating system is reimaged and all files that have been placed on the sensor through the service 
account are removed.

For more information on Cisco service contracts, see 

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For the procedure for locating software on Cisco.com and obtaining an account with cryptographic 
privileges, see 

You must create a recovery CD on a Linux system to install the ISO image for the IDS 4235 and 
IDS 4250.