Signatur updates for Cisco IPS 4510

Hi there.
I one question to all cisco IDS/IPS professionals. If the management port only accept inbound traffic how can I then activate my Cisco 4510 IPS appliance to get automatically signature updates from cisco.com ? That one requires outbound traffic too.
Thanks.

You Management0/0-port only supports "to-the-box" traffic which means that you can't use that port for an inline pair or a vlan-pair. But with the IP on that port configured, you can not only connect to your sensor, the sensor can also initiate connection to the rest of the network and so you can reach your update-destionations.
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Find the section for the version you are running and click on the Latest Signature Updates link to take to you to the download page for signature updates.
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NOTE1: Each Signature Updates contains all signatures from previous Sig levels. So you only need to download the latest one.
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There are 3 main types of Signature Updates.
1) IPS Sensor Signature Updates
2) CSM Signature Updates for IPS Sensors
3) IOS IPS Signature Updates
The IPS Signature Update filename is in the form: IPS-sig-Sxxx-req-Ey.pkg
This is most likely what you are referrnig to in your post. This file can be installed on ANY IDS/IPS Appliance or Module.
The Requirement here is not the platform but rather the Engine Level. The "req-Ey" portion of the filename tells you that the sensor must already be running the "y" Engine level of software.
So an IPS-sig-S436-req-E3.pkg file can be installed on any IDS/IPS Appliance or Module so long as the software on that sensor is an "E3" version.
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Thanks for that, but the instructions in that document appear to be related to updating a sensor from an FTP server where the updates have already been copied to it.
I have searched and searched, but I'm unable to locate the relevant location to download the signatures direct via FTP/SCP. I have attempted to locate them on ftp.cisco.com, but with no luck.
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