VMS has 2 management tools that deal with the IDS/IPS sensors:
Security Monitor for monitoring the alerts,
and IDS MC for configuring the sensors.
Upon initial release Security Monitor will be able to monitor the 5.0 sensors, but will monitor them the same as it does for 4.1 sensors. In other words Security Monitor will not have the new fields that are added to the alert in 5.0.
Security Monitor will be updated in a future release to handle the new format for 5.0 alerts with the new fields.
Upon initial release IDS MC will not be able to configure a 5.0 sensor. 5.0 sensors will have to be configured using CLI or IDM on the sensor itself.
IDS MC support for configuring 5.0 sensors is being added in a future IDS MC release.
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