Appendix E Troubleshooting

Gathering Information

No attack

Detection - ON

Learning - ON

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Internal Zone

TCP Protocol

UDP Protocol

Other Protocol

External Zone

TCP Protocol

UDP Protocol

Other Protocol

 

 

 

 

Illegal Zone

 

 

 

 

TCP Protocol

 

 

 

 

UDP Protocol

 

 

 

 

Other Protocol

 

 

 

 

sensor#

 

 

 

Step 4

Display the statistics for authentication.

 

 

 

 

sensor# show statistics authentication

 

 

 

 

General

 

 

 

 

totalAuthenticationAttempts = 128

 

 

 

 

failedAuthenticationAttempts = 0

 

 

 

 

sensor#

 

 

 

Step 5

Display the statistics for the denied attackers in the system.

 

 

 

 

sensor# show statistics denied-attackers

 

 

 

 

Denied Attackers and hit count for each.

 

 

 

 

Denied Attackers and hit count for each.

 

 

 

 

Statistics for Virtual Sensor vs0

 

 

 

 

Denied Attackers with percent denied and hit count for each.

 

 

 

 

Denied Attackers with percent denied and hit count for each.

 

 

 

 

Statistics for Virtual Sensor vs1

 

 

 

 

Denied Attackers with percent denied and hit count for each.

 

 

 

 

Denied Attackers with percent denied and hit count for each.

 

 

 

 

sensor#

 

 

 

Step 6

Display the statistics for the Event Server.

 

 

 

 

sensor# show statistics event-server

 

 

 

 

General

 

 

 

 

openSubscriptions = 0

 

 

 

 

blockedSubscriptions = 0

 

 

 

 

Subscriptions

 

 

 

 

sensor#

 

 

 

Step 7

Display the statistics for the Event Store.

 

 

 

 

sensor# show statistics event-store

 

 

 

 

EEvent store statistics

 

 

 

 

General information about the event store

 

 

 

 

The current number of open subscriptions = 2

 

 

 

 

The number of events lost by subscriptions and queries = 0

 

 

 

 

The number of filtered events not written to the event store = 850763

 

 

 

 

The number of queries issued = 0

 

 

 

Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Appliance and Module Installation Guide for IPS 7.1

 

 

 

 

E-92

 

 

OL-24002-01

 

 

 

 

 

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Cisco Systems IPS4520K9 manual Display the statistics for authentication, Display the statistics for the Event Server

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