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Release Notes for Cisco Intrusion Prevention System 5.1(7)E1
OL-8492-01
After Upgrading to Cisco IPS 5.1(7)E1
To log in to IDM, follow these steps:
Step 1 Open a web browser and enter the sensor IP address:
https://sensor_ip_address
Note IDM is already installed on the sensor.
Note The default IP address is 192.168.1.2/24,192.168.1.1, which you change to reflect your network
environment when you initialize the sensor. When you change the web server port, you must
specify the port in the URL address of your browser when you connect to IDM in the format
https://sensor_ip_address:port (for example, https://10.1.9.201:1040).
A Security Alert dialog box appears.
Step 2 Click Yes to accept the security certificate. The Cisco IPS Device Manager Version window appears.
Step 3 To launch IDM, click Run IDM. The JAVA loading message box appears. The Warning - Security dialog
box appears.
Step 4 To verify the security certificate, check the Always trust content from this publisher check box, and click
Yes .
The JAVA Web Start progress dialog box appears.
The IDM on ip_address dialog box appears.
Step 5 To create a shortcut for IDM, click Ye s .
Note You must have JRE 1.5 (JAVA 5) installed to create shortcuts for IDM. If you have JRE 1.6
(JAVA 6) installed, the shortcut is created automatically.
The Cisco IDM Launcher dialog box appears.
Step 6 To authenticate IDM, enter your username and password, and click OK.
Note Both the default username and password are cisco. You were prompted to change the password
during sensor initialization.
IDM begins to load.
If you change panes from Home to Configuration or Monitoring before IDM has complete initialization,
a Status dialog box appears with the following message:
Please wait while IDM is loading the current configuration from the sensor.
The main window of IDM appears.