McAfee NS5100 - Page 9

3 Select the admin domain from the Domain drop-down. To add a Sensor in the Manager, select Global | Add and
Remove Devices, then click New.
You do not require a license le to enable IPS on NS-series Sensors.
The Add and Remove Devices page is displayed. We recommend using the Add Device wizard to add a device.
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Enter the following mandatory information in the appropriate elds.
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Device Name — The Sensor name must begin with a letter. The maximum length of the name is 25
characters.
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Device Type —
Species the type of device to be added. Select IPS Sensor.
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Shared Secret — The shared secret must be a minimum of 8 characters and maximum of 25 characters in
length. The key cannot start with an exclamation mark nor can have any spaces. The parameters that
you can use to dene the key are:
• 26 alphabets: Uppercase and lowercase (A,
B, C,...Z and a,b,c,...z)
• 32 symbols: ~ ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + ‑ = [ ]
{ } \ | ; : " ' , . <? /
• 10 digits: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Retype the password in Confirm Shared Secret.
The Sensor name and shared secret key that you enter in the Manager must be identical to the shared
secret that you will later enter during physical installation or initialization of the Sensor (using CLI
interface) in Step 9 - Congure Sensor information. If not, the Sensor will not be able to register itself with
the Manager.
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Updating Mode — Select Online or Offline.
Selecting Offline enables Oine Sensor update. Online is the default mode.
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