If both the Source IP and Destination IP are populated in an event, the asset data is displayed
for both. If either of them is populated, the respective asset data is displayed.
2.12 Viewing Vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Visualization provides a textual or graphical representation of the vulnerabilities of
selected destination systems. Vulnerabilities for the selected destination IPs can be seen for the
current time or for the time of the selected events.
Vulnerability Visualization requires that a vulnerability Collector is running and adding
vulnerability scan information to the Sentinel database. The
support.novell.com/products/sentinel/collectors.html)
standard vulnerability scanners, and additional vulnerability Collectors can be written using
Collector Builder.
NOTE: Vulnerability Collectors are distinct from Event Collectors and use different commands.
There are several Vulnerability Visualization views:
HTML
Graphical
Circular
Organic
Novell Web site (http://
provides Collectors for several industry-
Active Views Tab
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