Chapter 3 Setting Up the Sensor

Changing Network Settings

Changing the Hostname

 

Note

The CLI prompt of the current session and other existing sessions will not be updated with the new

 

 

hostname. Subsequent CLI login sessions will reflect the new hostname in the prompt.

 

 

 

 

 

Use the host-namehost_name command in the service host submode to change the hostname of the

 

 

sensor after you have run the setup command. The default is sensor.

 

 

To change the sensor hostname, follow these steps:

 

 

 

 

Step 1

Log in to the sensor using an account with administrator privileges.

 

Step 2

Enter network settings submode.

 

 

sensor# configure terminal

 

 

sensor(config)# service host

 

 

sensor(config-hos)# network-settings

 

Step 3

Change the sensor hostname.

 

 

sensor(config-hos-net)# host-name firesafe

 

Step 4

Verify the new hostname.

 

 

sensor(config-hos-net)# show settings

 

 

network-settings

 

 

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host-ip: 192.0.2.1/24,192.0.2.2 default:

 

 

192.168.1.2/24,192.168.1.1

 

 

 

 

 

host-name: firesafe default: sensor

 

 

telnet-option: enabled default: disabled

 

 

sshv1-fallback: disabled default: disabled

 

 

access-list (min: 0, max: 512, current: 1)

 

 

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network-address: 0.0.0.0/0

 

 

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ftp-timeout: 300 seconds <defaulted>

 

 

login-banner-text: <defaulted>

 

 

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sensor(config-hos-net)#

 

Step 5

To change the hostname back to the default setting, use the default form of the command.

 

 

sensor(config-hos-net)# default host-name

 

Step 6

Verify the change to the default hostname sensor.

 

 

sensor(config-hos-net)# show settings

 

 

network-settings

 

 

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host-ip: 192.0.2.1/24,192.0.2.2 default:

 

 

192.168.1.2/24,192.168.1.1

 

 

 

 

 

host-name: sensor <defaulted>

 

 

telnet-option: enabled default: disabled

 

 

sshv1-fallback: disabled default: disabled

 

 

access-list (min: 0, max: 512, current: 1)

 

 

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network-address: 0.0.0.0/0

 

 

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