Unable to See Alerts

Appendix E Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting the Appliance

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•For the procedure for properly installing the sensing interface on your sensor, refer to the chapter on your appliance in this document.

•For the procedures for configuring interfaces on your sensor, refer to Configuring Interfaces.

If you are not seeing alerts, try the following:

•Make sure the signature is enabled

•Make sure the signature is not retired

•Make sure that you have Produce Alert configured as an action

Note If you choose Produce Alert, but come back later and add another event action and do not add Produce Alert to the new configuration, alerts are not sent to the Event Store. Every time you configure a signature, the new configuration overwrites the old one, so make sure you have configured all the event actions you want for each signature.

•Make sure the sensor is seeing packets

•Make sure that alerts are being generated

•Make sure the sensing interface is in a virtual sensor

To make sure you can see alerts, follow these steps:

Step 1 Log in to the CLI.

Step 2 Make sure the signature is enabled.

sensor# configure terminal

sensor(config)# service signature-definition sig0 sensor(config-sig)#signatures 1300 0 sensor(config-sig-sig)#status sensor(config-sig-sig-sta)#show settings

status

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enabled: true <defaulted>

retired: false <defaulted>

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sensor(config-sig-sig-sta)#

Step 3 Make sure you have Produce Alert configured.

sensor# configure terminal

sensor(config)# service signature-definition sig0 sensor(config-sig)#signatures 1300 0 sensor(config-sig-sig)#engine ?

normalizer	Signature engine
sensor(config-sig-sig)# engine normalizer
sensor(config-sig-sig-nor)# event-actionproduce-alert

sensor(config-sig-sig-nor)# show settings normalizer

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	event-action: produce-alert default: produce-alertdeny-connection-inline
	edit-default-sigs-only
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	sensor#
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IPS4520K9 specifications

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Cisco Systems IPS4520K9 manual Unable to See Alerts, Make sure you have Produce Alert configured

Models: IPS4520K9

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