That's because the confg location that you configured would have already had
a sig file stored when the router was previously configured for IPS.

With regards
KIngs

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Pemasiri Devanarayana
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When I was configuring IOS IPS, I could saw that before I download the
> signature package file, all the signatures was enabled, I'm wondering how
> this can be.. , however I have used the same router some time back to do the
> same lab, but that time it was as expected. Here are the steps I did when
> configuring IOS IPS.
>
> 1) load the cisco public rsa key
> 2) retired all signature and enabled only the required category
> 3) configure IOS IPS parameters such as IPS name, config location, notify
> SDEE etc
> 4) apply the IOS IPS name to interface (both in and out)
>
> then immediately  I was able to see the below messages:
>
>
> R2(config)#ip ips no
> R2(config)#ip ips notify S
> R2(config)#ip ips notify SDEE
> R2(config)#ip is
> R2(config)#ip ip
> R2(config)#ip ips na
> R2(config)#ip ips name iosips
> R2(config)#int fa0/0
> R2(config-if)#ip ips
> R2(config-if)#ip ips n
> R2(config-if)#ip ips n
> R2(config-if)#ip ips na
> R2(config-if)#ip ips iosips in
> R2(config-if)#ip ips iosips in
> R2(config-if)#ip ips iosips out
> R2(config-if)#
> R2(config-if)#exit
> R2(config)#do sh ip ips sig count
> Another IPS operation is accessing the signatures.
> R2(config)#
> Feb 25 12:41:30.743: %IPS-3-IPS_CONCURRENT_ACCESS: Another IPS operation is
> accessing the signatures.
> R2(config)#
> Feb 25 12:41:47.047: %IPS-6-ENGINE_BUILDS_STARTED:  12:41:47 UTC Feb 25
> 2011
> Feb 25 12:41:47.051: %IPS-6-ENGINE_BUILDING: multi-string - 17 signatures -
> 1 of 13 engines
> Feb 25 12:41:47.091: %IPS-6-ENGINE_READY: multi-string - build time 40 ms -
> packets for this engine will be scanned
> Feb 25 12:41:47.235: %IPS-6-ENGINE_BUILDING: service-http - 721 signatures
> - 2 of 13 engines
> Feb 25 12:41:47.983: %IPS-6-ENGINE_READY: service-http - build time 748 ms
> - packets for this engine will be scanned
> Feb 25 12:41:48.407: %IPS-6-ENGINE_BUILDING: string-tcp - 1658 signatures -
> 3 of 13 engines
> R2(config)#
> Feb 25 12:41:59.007: %IPS-6-ENGINE_READY: string-tcp - build time 10600 ms
> - packets for this engine will be scanned
> Feb 25 12:41:59.271: %IPS-6-ENGINE_BUILDING: string-udp - 78 signatures - 4
> of 13 engines
> Feb 25 12:41:59.351: %IPS-6-ENGINE_READY: string-udp - build time 80 ms -
> packets for this engine will be scanned
> Feb 25 12:41:59.367: %IPS-6-ENGINE_BUILDING: state - 34 signatures - 5 of
> 13 engines
> Feb 25 12:41:59.387: %IPS-6-ENGINE_READY: state - build time 20 ms -
> packets for this engine will be scanned
> Feb 25 12:41:59.451: %IPS-6-ENGINE_BUILDING: atomic-ip - 342 signatures - 6
> of 13 engines
> R2(config)#
> Feb 25 12:42:00.607: %IPS-6-ENGINE_READY: atomic-ip - build time 1156 ms -
> packets for this engine will be scanned
> Feb 25 12:42:00.647: %IPS-6-ENGINE_BUILDING: string-icmp - 3 signatures - 7
> of 13 engines
> Feb 25 12:42:00.647: %IPS-6-ENGINE_READY: string-icmp - build time 0 ms -
> packets for this engine will be scanned
> Feb 25 12:42:00.651: %IPS-6-ENGINE_BUILDING: service-ftp - 3 signatures - 8
> of 13 engines
>
>
> then I gave the below commands and noticed all the signature are loaded
> before downloading IOS-S416-CLI.pkg to idconf..
>
> R2(config)#do sh ip ips sig count
>
> Cisco SDF release version S416.0
> Trend SDF release version V0.0
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: multi-string: Total Signatures 17
>       multi-string enabled signatures: 13
>       multi-string retired signatures: 17
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: service-http: Total Signatures 721
>       service-http enabled signatures: 145
>       service-http retired signatures: 715
>       service-http compiled signatures: 6
>       service-http obsoleted signatures: 2
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: string-tcp: Total Signatures 1658
>       string-tcp enabled signatures: 650
>       string-tcp retired signatures: 1620
>       string-tcp compiled signatures: 38
>       string-tcp obsoleted signatures: 22
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: string-udp: Total Signatures 78
>       string-udp enabled signatures: 2
>       string-udp retired signatures: 75
>       string-udp compiled signatures: 3
>       string-udp obsoleted signatures: 1
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: state: Total Signatures 34
>       state enabled signatures: 17
>       state retired signatures: 34
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: atomic-ip: Total Signatures 342
>       atomic-ip enabled signatures: 90
>       atomic-ip retired signatures: 338
>       atomic-ip compiled signatures: 4
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: string-icmp: Total Signatures 3
>       string-icmp enabled signatures: 0
>       string-icmp retired signatures: 3
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: service-ftp: Total Signatures 3
>       service-ftp enabled signatures: 1
>       service-ftp retired signatures: 3
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: service-rpc: Total Signatures 76
>       service-rpc enabled signatures: 44
>       service-rpc retired signatures: 76
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: service-dns: Total Signatures 39
>       service-dns enabled signatures: 27
>       service-dns retired signatures: 39
>       service-dns obsoleted signatures: 1
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: normalizer: Total Signatures 9
>       normalizer enabled signatures: 8
>       normalizer retired signatures: 9
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: service-smb-advanced: Total Signatures 49
>       service-smb-advanced enabled signatures: 42
>       service-smb-advanced retired signatures: 49
>
> Signature Micro-Engine: service-msrpc: Total Signatures 33
>       service-msrpc enabled signatures: 22
>       service-msrpc retired signatures: 33
>       service-msrpc obsoleted signatures: 1
>
> Total Signatures: 3062
>    Total Enabled Signatures: 1061
>    Total Retired Signatures: 3011
>    Total Compiled Signatures: 51
>    Total Obsoleted Signatures: 27
>
> My question is how come router load those signature before loading package
> file to idconf..??? (how ever the same lab I did on the same router some
> time back,,,)
>
> Thanks
>
>
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