This is obviously a very short list. Remember, we recommend use of the Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Device Manager (IDM) for management and configuration of the device during the lab exam. While this graphical user interface (GUI) will be used for most tasks, there are still some useful and quick command line verification tasks for you here.

IPS CLI 5.1

Initial Setup

more current-config
more current-config | include COMMAND
ping
show interfaces
show version
trace

Operation

show events
show os-identification
show settings
show settings terse | begin COMMAND
show statistics
show statistics SERVICE_NAME