Chapter 17 Administrative Tasks for the Sensor

Displaying Statistics

Step 3 Display the list of policies for event action rules.

sensor# list event-action-rules-configurations

Event Action Rules

Instance Size Virtual Sensor

rules0 112 vs0

rules1 141 vs1

sensor#

Step 4 Display the list of policies for signature definition.

sensor# list signature-definition-configurations Signature Definition

Instance

Size

Virtual Sensor

sig0

336

vs0

sig1

141

vs1

sig2

141

N/A

sensor#

Displaying Statistics

Use the show statistics [analysis-engine anomaly-detection authentication denied-attackers event-server event-store external-product-interface global-correlation host logger network-access notification os-identification sdee-server transaction-server virtual-sensor web-server] [clear] command to display statistics for each sensor application.

Use the show statistics {anomaly-detection denied-attackers os-identification virtual-sensor}

[name clear] command to display statistics for these components for all virtual sensors. If you provide the virtual sensor name, the statistics for that virtual sensor only are displayed.

Note The clear option is not available for the analysis engine, anomaly detection, host, network access, or OS identification applications.

For the IPS 4510 and IPS 4520, at the end of the command output, there are extra details for the Ethernet controller statistics, such as the total number of packets received at the Ethernet controller, the total number of packets dropped at the Ethernet controller under high load conditions, and the total packets transmitted including the customer traffic packets and the internal keepalive packet count.

Note The Ethernet controller statistics are polled at an interval of 5 seconds from the hardware side. The keepalives are sent or updated at an interval of 10 ms. Because of this, there may be a disparity in the actual count reflected in the total packets transmitted. At times, it is even possible that the total packets transmitted may be less that the keepalive packets transmitted.

To display statistics for the sensor, follow these steps:

Step 1 Log in to the CLI.

Step 2 Display the statistics for the Analysis Engine.

sensor# show statistics analysis-engine

Analysis Engine Statistics

Number of seconds since service started = 431157

Processing Load Percentage

 

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IPS4510K9 specifications

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