Configuring Automatic Upgrades; Understanding Automatic Upgrades; Automatically Upgrading The Sensor - Cisco IPS 7.1 Installation Manual

Appendix D Upgrading, Downgrading, and Installing System Images
To upgrade the recovery partition on your sensor, follow these steps:
Download the appropriate recovery partition image file to an FTP, SCP, HTTP, or HTTPS server that is
Step 1
accessible from your sensor.
Some browsers add an extension to the filename. The filename of the saved file must match what is
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displayed on the download page or you cannot use it to upgrade the recovery partition.
Step 2 Log in to the CLI using an account with administrator privileges.
Step 3 Enter configuration mode.
sensor# configure terminal
Upgrade the recovery partition.
Step 4
sensor(config)#
upgrade scp://user@server_ipaddress//upgrade_path/IPS-SSP_10-K9-r-1.1-a-7.1-3-E4.pkg
sensor(config)#
upgrade ftp://user@server_ipaddress//upgrade_path/IPS-SSP_10-K9-r-1.1-a-7.1-3-E4.pkg
Enter the server password. The upgrade process begins.
Step 5
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Configuring Automatic Upgrades

This section describes how to configure the sensor to automatically look for upgrades in the upgrade
directory. It contains the following topics:
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This procedure only reimages the recovery partition. The application partition is not modified
by this upgrade. To reimage the application partition after the recovery partition, use the recover
application-partition command.
For a list of supported FTP and HTTP/HTTPS servers, see
Servers, page D-3.
For the procedure for locating software on Cisco.com, see
For the procedure for using the recover command, see
Understanding Automatic Upgrades, page D-8
Automatically Upgrading the Sensor, page D-8
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Appliance and Module Installation Guide for IPS 7.1
Configuring Automatic Upgrades
Supported FTP and HTTP/HTTPS
Obtaining Cisco IPS Software, page
Upgrading the Recovery Partition, page D-6.
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