From the Central Management System appliance Web UI, you can apply an IPS policy to the monitoring interfaces of managed IPS-enabled platforms.
Prerequisites
Log in to the Web UI of the Central Management System appliance as Operator or Admin.
Verify that you can access the IPS-enabled platforms you want to manage.
Verify that the IPS policy to be applied at multiple platforms is identical across those platforms by comparing the fingerprints.
Note
For this software release, IPS policy fingerprints can be verified from the CLI only.
In the following example, the IPS policy p1 is defined identically on the two IPS-enabled platforms that are centrally managed in the group NXips.
host (config) # cmc execute group NXips command "show ips policies p1 fingerprint" ============ Appliance NX_900_IPS ============ Execution was successful. Execution output: 2014/04/18 12:36:34 | 4862cb13e6777d20c3b720d9d5b471a4 ============ Appliance NX_10000_IPS ============ Execution was successful. Execution output:2014/04/18 13:01:58 | 4862cb13e6777d20c3b720d9d5b471a4
Procedure
In the Web UI, choose Settings > Appliance Settings.
Use the Group and Appliance drop-down menus to select the IPS-enabled platforms you want to manage.
Select IPS in the left navigation bar.
To apply an IPS policy to monitoring interfaces on multiple managed IPS-enabled platforms, click Apply Policy in the Actions column for that policy.
Select the monitoring interfaces to which you want the IPS policy applied.
Click Apply Policy.
Click Done.