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Chapter 17 Administrative Tasks for the Sensor

Administrative Notes and Caveats

The following notes and caveats apply to administrative tasks for the sensor:

•Administrators may need to disable the password recovery feature for security reasons.

•If you try to recover the password on a sensor on which password recovery is disabled, the process proceeds with no errors or warnings; however, the password is not reset. If you cannot log in to the sensor because you have forgotten the password, and password recovery is set to disabled, you must reimage your sensor.

•We do not recommend that you use clear database command unless under the direction of TAC or in some testing conditions when you need to clear accumulated state information and start with a clean database.

•The ASA 5500-X IPS SSP and the ASA 5585-X IPS SSP do not support bypass mode. The adaptive security appliance will either fail open, fail close, or fail over depending on the configuration of the adaptive security appliance and the type of activity being done on the IPS.

•When the sensor is first starting, it is normal for certain health metric statuses to be red until the sensor is fully up and running.

•You do not need to set the system clock if your sensor is synchronized by a valid outside timing mechanism such as an NTP clock source.

•The show inventory command does not apply to the ASA 5500-X IPS SSP and ASA 5585-X IPS SSP.

Recovering the Password

This section describes how to recover the password for the various IPS platforms. It contains the following topics:

•Understanding Password Recovery, page 17-2

•Recovering the Password for the Appliance, page 17-3

•Recovering the Password for the ASA 5500-X IPS SSP, page 17-4

•Recovering the Password for the ASA 5585-X IPS SSP, page 17-6

•Disabling Password Recovery, page 17-8

•Verifying the State of Password Recovery, page 17-9

•Troubleshooting Password Recovery, page 17-9

Understanding Password Recovery

Note Administrators may need to disable the password recovery feature for security reasons.

Password recovery implementations vary according to IPS platform requirements. Password recovery is implemented only for the cisco administrative account and is enabled by default. The IPS administrator can then recover user passwords for other accounts using the CLI. The cisco user password reverts to cisco and must be changed after the next login.

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IPS4510K9 specifications

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