Chapter 3

Initializing Sensor Appliances

Introduction

Sensor initialization is the first step in deploying a Cisco IDS sensor. Cisco also refers to this as bootstrapping the sensor. Once you have decided where the sensor will be placed on your network (in front of, or behind, your firewall) and racked the sensor, you will need to perform a few configuration steps. In this chapter, we show you how to identify the sensors and the interfaces on each. ...

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