Technical Documentation

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Services and Device Configurations Supported in NSM

The Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) device supports the following services in NSM:

  • Inventory management service—NSM enables upgrading license and management of the IDP hardware details. Adding or deleting licenses or upgrading or downgrading software are not supported.
  • Status monitoring service—Allows the IDP device’s status to be obtained, including name, domain, OS version, synchronization status, connection details, current alarms, CPU, memory, and swap.
  • Logging service—Allows the IDP device’s logs to be obtained in a time-generated order. Logging configuration details that are set on the IDP device will apply to NSM.
  • Packaging log files or debug files for remote analysis
  • Managing interface settings such as setting IP addresses, settings IDP device host and network information, interoperability with NSM, Infranet Controllers, Secure Access devices, settings deployment mode, enabling layer 2 processing, and so on. For more information see the ACM online Help.

The following device configurations are not supported:

  • Editing licensing information, although licenses can be viewed
  • Rebooting the IDP device