About the Active Database Page
To access this page, select Administration > Signature Database. The Active Database page appears.
Use the Active Database page to download and install the Application Firewall signature database to security devices. This database includes signature definitions of attacks and applications that can be used to identify applications for tracking firewall policies, SD-WAN flows, and QoS prioritization.
Tasks You Can Perform
You can perform the following tasks from this page:
Schedule signature downloads. See Downloading a Signature Database.
Install signatures. See Installing Signatures.
Field Descriptions
The Active Database page provides an overall, high-level view of your signature database settings. The Latest List of Signatures table provides a search option that you can use to search for the signature you want. Table 1 describes the fields on this page.
Table 1: Fields on the Active Database Page
Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Active Database | |
Database Version | Version of signature database. |
Publish Date | Date when the signature database was published. |
Update Job | Job ID of the last successful download signatures job. |
Installed Device Count | Number of devices installed. |
Detectors | Version number of the protocol detector currently running on the device. |
Action | Install signature database configuration. |
| Latest List of Signatures | |
Database Version | Version of latest signature database. |
Publish Date | Date when the signature database was published. |
Update Summary | List of updated signature details for the selected database. |
Detectors | Version number of the protocol detector currently running on the device. |
Action | Full Download–Download the complete signature database; the download might take a while to complete. |
