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Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Sensor CLI Configuration Guide for IPS 7.2
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Initializing the Sensor
This chapter describes how to use the setup command to initialize the sensor, and contains the following
sections:
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Initializing Notes and Caveats, page 2-1
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Understanding Initialization, page 2-2
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Simplified Setup Mode, page 2-2
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System Configuration Dialog, page 2-2
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Basic Sensor Setup, page 2-4
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Advanced Setup, page 2-7
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Verifying Initialization, page2 -20

Initializing Notes and Caveats

The following notes and caveats apply to initializing the sensor:
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You must be administrator to use the setup command.
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You must have a valid sensor license for automatic signature updates and global correlation features
to function. You can still configure and display statistics for the global correlation features, but the
global correlation databases are cleared and no updates are attempted. Once you install a valid
license, the global correlation features ar e reactivated.
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The currently supported Cisco IPS appliances are the IPS 4 345, IPS 4360, IPS 4510, and IPS 4 520.
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You do not need to configure interfaces on the ASA IPS modules (ASA5500-X IPS SSP and
ASA 5585-X IPS SSP). You should ignore the modify interface default VLAN setting in setup. The
separation of traffic across virtual sensors is configured differently for the ASA IPS modules than
for other sensors.