Cisco 4215 - Intrusion Detection Sys Sensor Configuration Manual page 476

Gathering Information
Version Information
The show version command is useful for establishing the general health of the sensor.
This section describes the show version command, and contains the following topics:
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Overview
The show version command shows the general health of the sensor and can indicate where a failure is
occurring. It gives the following information:
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You can get the same information from IDM or ASDM by clicking Monitoring > Support Information >
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Diagnostics Report.
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.
Sample version output for the appliance:
sensor# show version
Application Partition:
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System, Version 5.0(0.29)S135.0
OS Version 2.4.26-IDS-smp-bigphys
Platform: IPS-4255-K9
Serial Number: JAB0815R017
No license present
Sensor up-time is 5 days.
Using 722145280 out of 3974291456 bytes of available memory (18% usage)
system is using 17.3M out of 29.0M bytes of available disk space (59% usage)
application-data is using 36.3M out of 166.8M bytes of available disk space (23% usage)
boot is using 39.4M out of 68.6M bytes of available disk space (61% usage)
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Sensor CLI Configuration Guide for IPS 5.0
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Overview, page C-50
Displaying Version Information, page C-50
Which applications are running
Versions of the applications
Disk and memory usage
Upgrade history of the applications
Appendix C Troubleshooting
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