AIP SSM Command/control Interface is not coming up

Question

Hi to all,
kindly be informed that , i have AIP SSM for ASA, i configured it and its workign fine.but its command control interface is not coming up at all, i connect my lap top direct to AIP management interface but its status is always is down.kindly look at this configuration and guide me how i can communicate with AIP using mangement inerface.
My LapTop ip is 192.168.1.2/24
AIP Configuration
IPS1# sh ver
Application Partition:
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System, Version 6.2(1)E3
Host:
Realm Keys key1.0
Signature Definition:
Signature Update S365.0 2008-10-31
Virus Update V1.4 2007-03-02
OS Version: 2.4.30-IDS-smp-bigphys
Platform: ASA-SSM-20
Serial Number: JAF1319AJRG
No license present
Sensor up-time is 13 days.
Using 1019777024 out of 2093604864 bytes of available memory (48% usage)
application-data is using 47.1M out of 166.8M bytes of available disk space (30% usage)
boot is using 39.7M out of 68.6M bytes of available disk space (61% usage)
MainApp E-2008_OCT_16_16_24 (Release) 2008-10-16T16:40:57-0500 Running
AnalysisEngine E-2008_OCT_16_16_24 (Release) 2008-10-16T16:40:57-0500 Running
CLI E-2008_OCT_16_16_24 (Release) 2008-10-16T16:40:57-0500
Upgrade History:
IPS-K9-6.2-1-E3 16:24:00 UTC Thu Oct 16 2008
Recovery Partition Version 1.1 - 6.2(1)E3
Host Certificate Valid from: 12-Jul-2009 to 13-Jul-2011
IPS1#sh conf
! Current configuration last modified Sun Jul 12 23:56:08 2009
! Version 6.2(1)
! Host:
! Realm Keys key1.0
! Signature Definition:
! Signature Update S365.0 2008-10-31
! Virus Update V1.4 2007-03-02
service interface
exit
service authentication
exit
service event-action-rules rules0
exit
service host
network-settings
host-ip 192.168.1.3/24,192.168.1.1
host-name Cinet-IPS1
telnet-option enabled
access-list 0.0.0.0/0
exit
time-zone-settings
offset 0
standard-time-zone-name UTC
exit
exit
service logger
exit
service network-access
exit
service notification
exit
service signature-definition sig0
exit
service ssh-known-hosts
exit
service trusted-certificates
exit
service web-server
exit
service anomaly-detection ad0
exit
service external-product-interface
exit
service health-monitor
exit
service analysis-engine
virtual-sensor vs0
physical-interface GigabitEthernet0/1
exit
exit

Answer 1

If the interface won't link Up, then it is likely a cabling problem.
Even with a bad configuration on the AIP you should at least get link UP if your cabling is correct, so I don't think configuration is your problem here.
If I remember right the command and control interface of the SSM is a 10/100 TX interface. When connecting from a laptop directly to the command and control interface it would require a cross over cable rather than the normal straight through cable.
If you don't have a cross over cable, then try connecting the SSM to a switch and see if the SSM will link UP. The switch is designed to internally do the cross over.