In Security Monitoring under "connections" a majority of the sensors have "paused" as a status! What is this? How did it happen? And how do I fix it?

I had to recover a sensor to s47. Before it went down the sensor was at s159 in the VMS MC. How can I get the sensor back up to s159 without losing all of my settings/filter/custom strings, etc?????????

I have seen the information for IPS Version 5.0. How long will you continue to support version 4.x?

How can I verify what signature version is on Sec Mon? It seems like the "new" signatures are applied to the sensors but they never show up in Sec Mon Events.

Any new signature for this latest variant or will the old signatures work??