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Joe Harris, CCIE No. 6200 (R&S, Security & SP) is a Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems® specializing in Security. In addition to authoring Cisco Network Security Little Black Book, Joe has also been a technical reviewer for several Cisco Press publications and written articles, white papers, and presentations on various security technologies. He also assists various Certification Partners by beta testing their newest CCIE certification workbooks and has been recognized by Cisco as an SE Wall of Fame award winner.

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Cisco IPS Auto-Upgrade

August 20th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

If you have a Cisco IPS Appliance and/or Network Module and assuming you have purchased Cisco Services for IPS and would like configure your appliance to perform auto-upgrades to the latest signatures or software, you can use the sample configuration below as a starting place to accomplish this task. After implementing this configuration on your appliance and assuming you have everthing correctly configured under the network-settings, your appliance should perform regularly scheduled updates.

You will need to change the username/password listed here because I made those up :-)


MY-IPS-20# sh config
! ——————————
! Current configuration last modified Thu Jul 17 13:16:14 2008
! ——————————
! Version 6.1(1)
! Host:
! Realm Keys key1.0
! Signature Definition:
! Signature Update S352.0 2008-08-14
! Virus Update V1.4 2007-03-02
! ——————————
!
service host
network-settings
…
exit
time-zone-settings
…
exit
…
auto-upgrade
cisco-server enabled
schedule-option periodic-schedule
start-time 21:05:00
interval 1
exit
user-name 6200networks
password HAHAHAHAHA
cisco-url https://198.133.219.25//cgi-bin/front.x/ida/locator/locator.pl
exit

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