Updating Sensor Software In A Failover Pair - McAfee M-1250 - Network Security Platform Upgrade Manual

5 Performing Signature Set and Sensor Software upgrade
Updating Sensor software image
6 Verify the Sensor's System Health Status is "good"; check the Sensor status from CLI by typing the
status command.
You can also check whether the Sensor is updated with the latest software version as well as latest
signature set by going to Device List | Sensor_Name | Summary.
1 Use the Threat Analyzer to verify the performance of the Sensors.
This is to make sure the upgrade was successful. For information on how to check Sensor
performance from the Threat Analyzer, see Viewing Sensor performance statistics, System
Status Monitoring Guide.

Updating Sensor software in a failover pair

Because each Sensor in a failover pair must be rebooted after the software update, it is important to
update the software in the correct order.
Task
Push the software to each of the Sensors that are in the failover pair. You can follow one of these
1
methods:
• Sensor Software and Signature Set Upgrade using the Manager.
• Sensor software upgrade using a TFTP server.
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