Appendix A System Architecture

MainApp

Note In the Cisco IPS, the MainApp can automatically download signature and signature engine updates from Cisco.com.

Shut down or reboot the operating system

The MainApp responds to the show version command by displaying the following information:

Sensor build version

MainApp version

Version of each running application

Version and timestamp of each installed upgrade

Next downgrade version of each installed upgrade

Platform version

Version of sensor build on the other partition

The MainApp also gathers the host statistics and reports the health and security monitoring status.

Event Store

This section describes the Event Store, and contains the following topics:

Understanding the Event Store, page A-7

Event Data Structures, page A-8

IPS Events, page A-9

Understanding the Event Store

Note The Event Store has a fixed size of 30 MB for all platforms.

Each IPS event is stored in the Event Store with a time stamp and a unique, monotonic, ascending ID. This time stamp is the primary key used to index the event into the fixed-size, indexed Event Store. When the circular Event Store has reached its configured size, the oldest event or events are overwritten by the new event being stored. The SensorApp is the only application that writes alert events into the Event Store. All applications write log, status, and error events into the Event Store.

The fixed-sized, indexed Event Store allows simple event queries based on the time, type, priority, and a limited number of user-defined attributes. If each event is assigned a priority of low, medium, or high, a single event query can specify a list of desired event types, intrusion event priorities, and a time range.

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IPS4510K9 specifications

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