Displaying Version Information - Cisco 4215 - Intrusion Detection Sys Sensor Configuration Manual

Chapter 13 Administrative Tasks for the Sensor
To display tech support information, follow these steps:
Log in to the CLI using an account with administrator privileges.
Step 1
View the output on the screen:
Step 2
sensor# show tech-support page
The system information appears on the screen, one page at a time. Press the spacebar to view the next
page or press Ctrl-C to return to the prompt.
To send the output (in HTML format) to a file, follow these steps:
Step 3
a.
b.

Displaying Version Information

Use the show version command to display version information for all installed operating system
packages, signature packages, and IPS processes running on the system. To view the configuration for
the entire system, use the more current-config command.
To display the version and configuration, follow these steps:
Log in to the CLI.
Step 1
View version information:
Step 2
sensor# show version
The following examples show sample version output for the appliance and the NM-CIDS.
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Type the following command, followed by a valid destination:
sensor# show tech-support destination-url destination-url
You can specify the following destination types:
• ftp:—Destination URL for FTP network server. The syntax for this prefix is
ftp:[[//username@location]/relativeDirectory]/filename
ftp:[[//username@location]//absoluteDirectory]/filename
scp:—Destination URL for the SCP network server. The syntax for this prefix is
•
scp:[[//username@]location]/relativeDirectory]/filename
scp:[[//username@]location]//absoluteDirectory]/filename
For example, to send the tech support output to the file
sensor# show tech support dest
ftp://csidsuser@10.2.1.2//absolute/reports/sensor1Report.html
The prompt appears.
password:
Type the password for this user account.
The
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Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Sensor CLI Configuration Guide for IPS 5.0
message is displayed.
Displaying Version Information
or
.
or
.
/absolute/reports/sensor1Report.html
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