Cisco Cisco IPS 4255 Sensor

The default IP address is 192.168.1.2/24,192.168.1.1, which you change to reflect your network 
environment when you initialize the sensor. When you change the web server port, you must 
specify the port in the URL address of your browser when you connect to the IDM in the format 
https://sensor_ip_address:port (for example, https://192.0.2.1:1040).

Click Yes to accept the security certificate. The Cisco IPS Device Manager Version window appears.

To launch the IDM, click Run IDM. The JAVA loading message box appears, and then the Warning - 
Security dialog box appears.

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. 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 7.1.8:

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