Installing The Ips 4240 And Ips 4255 System Images - Cisco IPS-4255-K9 - Intrusion Protection Sys 4255 Installation Manual

Chapter 12 Upgrading, Downgrading, and Installing System Images
Configure the line and port on the terminal server. In enable mode, enter the following configuration,
Step 2
where # is the line number of the port to be configured.
config t
line #
login
transport input all
stopbits 1
flowcontrol hardware
speed 9600
exit
exit
wr mem
Be sure to properly close a terminal session to avoid unauthorized access to the appliance.
Step 3
If a terminal session is not stopped properly, that is, if it does not receive an exit(0) signal from the
application that initiated the session, the terminal session can remain open. When terminal sessions are
not stopped properly, authentication is not performed on the next session that is opened on the serial port.
Always exit your session and return to a login prompt before terminating the application used to establish
Caution
the connection.
If a connection is dropped or terminated by accident, you should reestablish the connection and exit
Caution
normally to prevent unauthorized access to the appliance.

Installing the IPS 4240 and IPS 4255 System Images

This procedure is for the IPS 4240, but is also applicable to the IPS 4255. The system image for the
Note
IPS 4255 has "4255" in the filename.
You can install the IPS 4240 and IPS 4255 system image by using the ROMMON on the appliance to
TFTP the system image onto the compact flash device.
To install the IPS 4240 and IPS 4255 system image, follow these steps:
Download the IPS 4240 system image file (IPS 4240-K9-sys-1.1-a-6.27.0-1-E3.img) to the tftp root
Step 1
directory of a TFTP server that is accessible from your IPS 4240.
Note
Boot the IPS 4240.
Step 2
Booting system, please wait...
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Make sure you can access the TFTP server location from the network connected to the Ethernet
port of your IPS 4240.
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