Updating Your Signatures And Software - McAfee M-1250 - Network Security Platform Deployment Manual

McAfee® Network Security Platform 6.0
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Updating your signatures and software

An essential element to a reliable IPS is updating the system signature and software
images. McAfee periodically releases new Manager software and Sensor signature and
software images, and makes these updates available via the McAfee
Update Server to registered support customers.
Figure 1: Sensor software update methods
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View the system's health.
The Operational Status page details the functional status for all
of your installed Network Security Platform system components. Messages are
generated to detail system faults experienced by your Manager, Sensors, or
database. For more information, see
View a port's performance.
The
performance data for a port on a Sensor. The data collected is a reflection of the
traffic that has passed through the port. For more information, see
Guide
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Back up all or part of your Manager configuration information to your server or other
location. Network Security Platform provides three backup options:
 All Tables
: all Network Security Platform data (configuration, audit, and alert).
 Config Tables
: all information related to system configuration, such as port
configuration, users, admin domains, policies for all Network Security Platform
resources in all domains.
 Audit and Alert Tables
: all information related to user activity and alerts.
All Tables
Note: The and
depending upon the amount of alert data in your database. McAfee
recommends saving these types of backups to an alternate location.
For more information on how to back up your data, see
Guide
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Field Description
Update Server
Internet
System Status Monitoring Guide
Performance Statistics
action enables you to view
Audit and Alert Tables
options can be rather large in size,
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