Chapter 17 Administrative Tasks for the Sensor

Displaying Policy Lists

Name of current Event-Action-Rules instance = rules0

List of interfaces monitored by this virtual sensor = mypair

Denied Address Information

Number of Active Denied Attackers = 0

Number of Denied Attackers Inserted = 2

Number of Denied Attackers Total Hits = 287

Number of times max-denied-attackers limited creation of new entry = 0

Number of exec Clear commands during uptime = 1

Denied Attackers and hit count for each.

Step 10 Clear only the statistics.

sensor# show statistics virtual-sensor clear

Step 11 Verify that you have cleared the statistics. The statistics have all been cleared except for the Number of

Active Denied Attackers and Number of exec Clear commands during uptime categories. It is

important to know if the list has been cleared.

sensor# show statistics virtual-sensor Virtual Sensor Statistics

Statistics for Virtual Sensor vs0

Name of current Signature-Definition instance = sig0

Name of current Event-Action-Rules instance = rules0

List of interfaces monitored by this virtual sensor = mypair

Denied Address Information

Number of Active Denied Attackers = 2

Number of Denied Attackers Inserted = 0

Number of Denied Attackers Total Hits = 0

Number of times max-denied-attackers limited creation of new entry = 0

Number of exec Clear commands during uptime = 1

Denied Attackers and hit count for each.

10.20.2.5= 0

10.20.5.2= 0

Displaying Policy Lists

Use the list {anomaly-detection-configurations event-action-rules-configurations signature-definition-configurations} in EXEC mode to display the list of policies for these components. The file size is in bytes. A virtual sensor with N/A indicates that the policy is not assigned to a virtual sensor.

To display a list of policies on the sensor, follow these steps:

Step 1 Log in to the CLI.

Step 2 Display the list of policies for anomaly detection.

sensor#

list anomaly-detection-configurations

Anomaly

Detection

 

Instance

Size

Virtual Sensor

ad0

 

255

vs0

temp

 

707

N/A

MyAD

 

255

N/A

ad1

 

141

vs1

sensor#

 

 

 

 

 

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IPS4510K9 specifications

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