It sounds like you have a sensor running at least version 4.0 to me.
Here's a link where you can find Installation and Configuration guides for everything Cisco IDS:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2113/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html
In order to interact with the sensor using something other than CLI, you’ll have to initialize it first using the CLI. The docs at the above link will get you started, including using IDM, IEV and VMS Basic.
BTW, whether you have a box running 4.0 or 4.1, checking the version is the same. Login using the default account (username is 'cisco' [no quotes], password is the same). Once logged in, issue the command 'show version' and you'll see some output similar to this:
Application Partition:
Cisco Systems Intrusion Detection Sensor, Version 4.1(4)S99
OS Version 2.4.18-5smpbigphys
Platform: IDS-4235
Using 623529984 out of 921522176 bytes of available memory (67% usage)
Using 834M out of 15G bytes of available disk space (6% usage)
MainApp 2004_Apr_15_15.03 (Release) 2004-04-15T15:11:59-0500 Running
AnalysisEngine 2004_Apr_15_15.03 (Release) 2004-04-15T15:11:59-0500 Running
Authentication 2004_Apr_15_15.03 (Release) 2004-04-15T15:11:59-0500 Running
Logger 2004_Apr_15_15.03 (Release) 2004-04-15T15:11:59-0500 Running
NetworkAccess 2004_Apr_15_15.03 (Release) 2004-04-15T15:11:59-0500 Running
TransactionSource 2004_Apr_15_15.03 (Release) 2004-04-15T15:11:59-0500 Running
WebServer 2004_Apr_15_15.03 (Release) 2004-04-15T15:11:59-0500 Running
CLI 2004_Apr_15_15.03 (Release) 2004-04-15T15:11:59-0500
Upgrade History:
* IDS-sig-4.1-4-S98 11:18:22 UTC Tue Jun 22 2004
IDS-sig-4.1-4-S99.rpm.pkg 11:35:59 UTC Mon Jun 28 2004
Recovery Partition Version 1.1 - 4.0(1)S37
Hope this helps (rate the post if it does),
Alex Arndt
