Sensor Installation

Once you decide on the proper placement and deployment strategy, you can then begin to install and configure the sensors. Before you can use Cisco Secure Policy Manager (CSPM) to configure your sensors, though, you must first connect to the sensors and perform basic network connectivity. Once the sensors have a basic configuration, CSPM can be used to configure and manage all sensors in your CIDS infrastructure. This section discusses the management access methods (used to connect initially to the sensor), prepping the sensors for network access (bootstrapping), and configuring the sensors for communication with CSPM.

Once the sensor is properly configured, it can be added as a sensor node in CSPM. After adding the sensor to the NTT tree, you can use CSPM to configure and manage your network sensor appliance.