Cisco Cisco IPS 4255 Sensor

 describes the platform identifiers used in platform-specific names. 

This section provides information on upgrading to Cisco IPS 7.0(4)E4, and contains the following 
topics:

The following upgrade notes and caveats apply to upgrading your sensor to IPS 7.0(4)E4:

This service pack contains the S500 signature level.

You cannot uninstall IPS 7.0(4)E4. To revert to your previous version, you must reimage the sensor 
using the system image file, which causes all configuration settings to be lost.

You must have a valid Cisco Service for IPS Maintenance contract per sensor to receive and use 
software upgrades from Cisco.com.

Bootloader

As needed

bl

AIM IPS
NME IPS

pse_aim_x.y.z.bin 
pse_nm_x.y.z.bin
(where x, y, z is the release number)

Mini-kernel

As needed

mini-kernel AIM IPS

NME IPS

pse_mini_kernel_1.1.10.64.bz2

1.

The system image includes the combined recovery and application image used to reimage an entire sensor.

2.

The maintenance partition image includes the full image for the IDSM2 maintenance partition. The file is installed from but 
does not affect the IDSM2 application partition.

IPS 4240 series

4240

IPS 4255 series

4255

IPS 4260 series

4260

IPS 4270-20 series

4270_20

IDS module for Catalyst 6K

IDSM2

IPS network module

AIM
NME

Adaptive security appliance 
modules

SSM_10
SSM_20
SSM_40