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Appendix E Troubleshooting
Gathering Information
Version Information
The
show version
command is useful for obtaining sensor information. This section describes the
show
version
command, and contains the following topics:
•
Understanding the show version Command, page E-89
•
Displaying Version Information, page E-89
Understanding the show version Command
The
show version
command shows the basic sensor information and can indicate where a failure is
occurring. It gives the following information:
•
Which applications are running
•
Versions of the applications
•
Disk and memory usage
•
Upgrade history of the applications
Note
To get the same information from IDM, choose
Monitoring > Sensor Monitoring > Support
Information > Diagnostics Report.
To get the same information from IME, choose
Configuration >
sensor_name
> Sensor Monitoring > Support Information > 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.
Note
The CLI output is an example of what your configuration may look like. It will not match exactly due to
the optional setup choices, sensor model, and IPS 7.1 version you have installed.
To display the version and configuration, follow these steps:
Step 1
Log in to the CLI.
Step 2
View version information.
sensor#
show version
Application Partition:
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System, Version 7.1(3)E4
Host:
Realm Keys key1.0
Signature Definition:
Signature Update S605.0 2011-10-25
OS Version: 2.6.29.1
Platform: ASA5585-SSP-IPS10
Serial Number: 123456789AB
No license present
Sensor up-time is 13 days.
Using 4395M out of 5839M bytes of available memory (75% usage)
