Cisco Cisco IPS 4255 Sensor

Copy your license key from a sensor to a server to keep a backup copy of the license.

sensor# copy license-key scp://user@10.89.147.3://tftpboot/dev.lic 

Password: *******

sensor#

This section describes how to install and upgrade the IME, and how to migrate data from IEV or a 
previous version of the IME.

If you have a version of Cisco IPS Event Viewer installed, the Install wizard prompts you to remove it 
before installing the IME. 

IME event monitoring is also supported in IOS-IPS versions that support the Cisco IPS 5.x/6.x signature 
format. We recommend IOS-IPS 12.4(15)T4 if you intend to use the IME to monitor an IOS IPS device. 
Some of the new IME functionality including health monitoring is not supported.

Do not install the IME on top of existing installations of CSM. You must uninstall CSM before installing 
the IME. Do not install CSM on top of existing installations of the IME.

Observe the following when installing or upgrading the IME:

You can install the IME over all versions of the IME but not over IEV. All alert database and user 
settings are preserved.

The IME detects previous versions of IEV and prompts you to manually remove the older version 
before installing the IME or to install the IME on another system. The installation program then 
stops.

Make sure you close any open instances of the IME before upgrading to a new version of the IME. 

Disable any anti-virus or host-based intrusion detection software before beginning the installation, 
and close any open applications. The installer spawns a command shell application that may trigger 
your host-based detection software, which causes the installation to fail. 

You must be administrator to install the IME.

The IME coexists with other instances of the MySQL database. If you have a MySQL database 
installed on your system, you do NOT have to uninstall it before installing the IME.