Chapter 14. Troubleshooting Cisco Intrusion Prevention System

Cisco Secure Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) comprises three main components: first, the IPS Sensor, which is the sniffing or inline component of Cisco Intrusion Prevention System; second, a management section of IPS (IPS MC, for example), which will be discussed in Chapter 18, “Troubleshooting IDM and IDS/IPS Management Console (IDS/IPS MC);” and third, a reporting tool (for example, a Security Monitor, which is discussed in Chapter 22, “Troubleshooting IEV and Security Monitors”). This chapter focuses on how to troubleshoot issues with IPS software on the sensor. As IPS software implementation is the same on all platforms (Sensor Appliance, IDSM-2 blade (IDSM stands for intrusion ...

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