Appendix C Troubleshooting

Gathering Information

Version Information

The show version command is useful for obtaining sensor information. This section describes the show version command, and contains the following topics:

Understanding the show version Command, page C-78

Displaying Version Information, page C-78

Understanding the show version Command

The show version command shows the basic sensor information and can indicate where a failure is occurring. It gives the following information:

Which applications are running

Versions of the applications

Disk and memory usage

Upgrade history of the applications

Note To get the same information from IDM, choose Monitoring > Sensor Monitoring > Support Information > Diagnostics Report. To get the same information from IME, choose Configuration > sensor_name > Sensor Monitoring > Support Information > Diagnostics Report.

Displaying Version Information

Use the show version command to display version information for all installed operating system packages, signature packages, and IPS processes running on the system. To view the configuration for the entire system, use the more current-configcommand.

Note The CLI output is an example of what your configuration may look like. It will not match exactly due to the optional setup choices, sensor model, and IPS version you have installed.

Note For the IPS 4500 series sensors, the show version command output contains an extra application called the SwitchApp.

To display the version and configuration, follow these steps:

 

 

 

Step 1

Log in to the CLI.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2

View version information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sensor# show version

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Application Partition:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cisco Intrusion Prevention System, Version 7.2(1)E4

 

 

 

 

Host:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Realm Keys

key1.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Definition:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Update

S697.0

2013-02-15

 

 

 

 

Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Sensor CLI Configuration Guide for IPS 7.2

 

 

 

 

C-78

 

 

 

 

OL-29168-01

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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