topic Re: IPS update folder in Firewall and Security Management

IPS update folder

Jose_Luis_Mart1 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 13:47:04 GMT

Hi all!

I'm checking several of our firewalls, and I'm getting the feeling that the IPS udpate folder is sometimes getting too big

drwx------ 2 admin root 4096 Apr 5 19:48 0
drwx------ 2 admin root 4096 Mar 31 19:52 1
drwx------ 2 admin root 4096 Apr 5 19:48 2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 admin root 36 Apr 5 00:32 cur -> /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/2
-rw-rw---- 1 admin root 226 Apr 6 14:18 ips_status.C
lrwxrwxrwx 1 admin root 36 Apr 5 19:48 latest -> /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/0
d--xr----T 2 admin root 4096 Nov 26 04:01 mgmt

4.0K /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/0
26M /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/mgmt
179M /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/1
179M /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/2

I guess "1" folder is a backup copy of the current just in case.

Could there be a safe way to to delete any of these folders and make space?

thanks

Re: IPS update folder

the_rock — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 13:51:12 GMT

If you do ls -lh, whats the size of the folder?

Andy

Re: IPS update folder

Jose_Luis_Mart1 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:02:02 GMT

Hi! I made a du -kh and for example I got these:

4.0K /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/0
26M /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/mgmt
179M /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/1
179M /opt/CPsuite-R80.40/fw1/ips/update/2

These are typical values. In some of our hardware is not a problem, in some others that came from factory with a not so big / partition, it's becoming a problem and will require to expand it with lvm_manager, and so stopping services and all that. So I was trying to find a "quick, dirty" solution to solve emergencies

Re: IPS update folder

the_rock — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:15:14 GMT

Personally, I always do this to be on safe side...back up those folders and then delete them, so in case anything goes wrong, you can copy the content back afterwards. Also do backup as well.

Andy

Re: IPS update folder

G_W_Albrecht — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:02:45 GMT

Please do not delete files and folders without being 100% sure and having a backup 8) I would ask TAC to get an official answer!

Re: IPS update folder

the_rock — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:16:20 GMT

Yes sir Gunther, agree 100%.

Andy

Re: IPS update folder

G_W_Albrecht — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:08:43 GMT

179 MB is very small - about 1388.6 MB is the size of each Jumbo package, so before deleting other files, in CPUSE first uninstall all installed Jumbo takes, install the latest one and delete all previous installation packages 8)