Configuring IPS engines

IPS elements are a tool for configuring nearly all aspects of your physical IPS components.

Little configuration is done directly on the engines. Most of the configuration is done using the Management Client. You cannot successfully install the engines before defining them in the SMC as outlined.

After you have the SMC installed and running, you can configure the IPS engines.

The tasks you must complete are as follows:
  1. Add Single IPS or IPS Cluster elements.
  2. Add system communication interfaces.
  3. Add traffic inspection interfaces.
  4. Bind licenses to specific IPS elements.