Chapter 5 Configuring Virtual Sensors

Adding, Editing, and Deleting Virtual Sensors

Editing and Deleting Virtual Sensors

You can edit the following parameters of a virtual sensor:

Signature definition policy

Event action rules policy

Anomaly detection policy

Note Anomaly detection is disabled by default. You must enable it to configure or apply an anomaly detection policy. Enabling anomaly detection results in a decrease in performance.

Anomaly detection operational mode

Inline TCP session tracking mode

Note The ASA IPS modules (ASA 5500-X IPS SSP and ASA 5585-X IPS SSP) do not support the inline TCP session tracking mode.

Description

Interfaces assigned

Editing or Deleting a Virtual Sensor

To edit or delete a virtual sensor, follow these steps:

Step 1 Log in to the CLI using an account with administrator privileges.

Step 2 Enter analysis engine mode.

sensor# configure terminal sensor(config)# service analysis-engine sensor(config-ana)#

Step 3 Edit the virtual sensor, vs1.

sensor(config-ana)# virtual-sensor vs1 sensor(config-ana-vir)#

Step 4 Edit the description of this virtual sensor.

sensor(config-ana-vir)#description virtual sensor A

Step 5 Change the anomaly detection policy and operational mode assigned to this virtual sensor.

sensor(config-ana-vir)# anomaly-detectionsensor(config-ana-vir-ano)# anomaly-detection-name ad0 sensor(config-ana-vir-ano)# operational-mode learn

Step 6 Change the event action rules policy assigned to this virtual sensor.

sensor(config-ana-vir-ano)# exit

sensor(config-ana-vir)#event-action-rules rules0

Step 7 Change the signature definition policy assigned to this virtual sensor.

sensor(config-ana-vir)#signature-definition sig0

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IPS4510K9 specifications

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