topic IPS Signature Statuses in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-signature-statuses/m-p/1408444#M68119 <P>Hi All.</P><P></P><P>I'm struggling to find a definitive answer or reason for some of the configuration IPS signature statuses.</P><P></P><P>What does the enabled setting in a rule actually mean in relation to retired and obsolete rules?</P><P></P><P>I have lots of rules which are enabled but which are also set as retired and/or obsolete. I'm assuming from my reaserach that these are not active rules</P><P></P><P>Why are these enabled? (especially when it doesn't mean anything?)</P><P></P><P>I appreciate that retired rules can be overidden and set to active, but surely when using the defaults from Cisco the retird rules should not be enabled?</P><P></P><P>I'm really confused by the non-sensical approach of both this and MARS.</P><P></P><P>Any help would be gratefully received.</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P></P><P>Mark</P> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:52:03 GMT markidotw 2019-03-10T11:52:03Z IPS Signature Statuses https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-signature-statuses/m-p/1408444#M68119 <P>Hi All.</P><P></P><P>I'm struggling to find a definitive answer or reason for some of the configuration IPS signature statuses.</P><P></P><P>What does the enabled setting in a rule actually mean in relation to retired and obsolete rules?</P><P></P><P>I have lots of rules which are enabled but which are also set as retired and/or obsolete. I'm assuming from my reaserach that these are not active rules</P><P></P><P>Why are these enabled? (especially when it doesn't mean anything?)</P><P></P><P>I appreciate that retired rules can be overidden and set to active, but surely when using the defaults from Cisco the retird rules should not be enabled?</P><P></P><P>I'm really confused by the non-sensical approach of both this and MARS.</P><P></P><P>Any help would be gratefully received.</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P></P><P>Mark</P> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:52:03 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-signature-statuses/m-p/1408444#M68119 markidotw 2019-03-10T11:52:03Z Re: IPS Signature Statuses https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-signature-statuses/m-p/1408445#M68120 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Anybody?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:43:42 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-signature-statuses/m-p/1408445#M68120 markidotw 2010-01-29T09:43:42Z