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Chapter 17 Upgrading, Downgrading, and Installing System Images
Configuring Automatic Upgrades
Step 2
Log in to the CLI using an account with administrator privileges.
Step 3
Enter configuration mode:
sensor#
configure terminal
Step 4
Upgrade the recovery partition:
sensor(config)#
upgrade scp
://
user@server_ipaddress//upgrade_path
/
IPS-K9-r-1.1-a-5.0-1.pkg
sensor(config)#
upgrade ftp
://
user@server_ipaddress//upgrade_path
/
IPS-K9-r-1.1-a-5.0-1.pkg
Step 5
Type the server password.
The upgrade process begins.
Note
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 the procedure, see
Using the Recover Command,
page 17-9
.
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:
•
Overview, page 17-5
•
UNIX-Style Directory Listings, page 17-5
•
Auto-upgrade Command and Options, page 17-6
•
Using the auto-upgrade Command, page 17-7
Overview
You can configure the sensor to look for new upgrade files in your upgrade directory automatically.
You must download the software upgrade from Cisco.com and copy it to the upgrade directory before
the sensor can poll for automatic upgrades. For the procedure for locating software on Cisco.com, see
Obtaining Cisco IPS Software, page 18-1
.
UNIX-Style Directory Listings
To configure automatic update using an FTP server, the FTP server must provide directory listing
responses in UNIX style. MS-DOS style directory listing is not supported by the sensor automatic update
feature.