Release Notes

Release Notes for Cisco Intrusion Prevention System 5.1(7)E1

OL-8492-01

After Upgrading to Cisco IPS 5.1(7)E1

Note If you use FTP or SCP protocol, you are prompted for a password. If you use SCP protocol,

you must add the remote host to the SSH known hosts list.

• http:—Source URL for the web server. The syntax for this prefix is:

http:[[/[username@]location]/directory]/filename

• https:—Source URL for the web server. The syntax for this prefix is:

https:[[/[username@]location]/directory]/filename

Note If you use HTTPS protocol, the remote host must be a TLS trusted host.

To install the license key, follow these steps:

Step 1 Apply for the license key at this URL: www.cisco.com/go/license.

Note You must have a Cisco Services for IPS service contract before you can apply for a license key.

Step 2 Fill in the required fields.

Note You must have the correct IPS device serial number because the license key only functions on

the device with that number.

Your Cisco IPS Signature Subscription Service license key will be sent to the e-mail address you

specified.

Step 3 Save the license key to a system that has a web server, FTP server, or SCP server.

Note If you use FTP or SCP protocol, you are prompted for a password. If you use SCP protocol, you

must add the remote host to the SSH known hosts list.

Step 4 Log in to the CLI using an account with administrator privileges.

Step 5 Copy the license key to the sensor:

sensor# copy scp://user@10.89.147.3://tftpboot/dev.lic license-key

Password: *******

Step 6 Verify the sensor is licensed:

sensor# show version

Application Partition:

Cisco Intrusion Prevention System, Version 5.1(7)S182.0

OS Version 2.4.26-IDS-smp-bigphys

Platform: IPS-4255-K9

Serial Number: ABC1234DEFG

Licensed, expires: 19-Dec-2005 UTC

Sensor up-time is 2 days.

Using 706699264 out of 3974291456 bytes of available memory (17% usage)

system is using 17.3M out of 29.0M bytes of available disk space (59% usage)