Chapter 7: Configuring Discovery And Assessment Policies; Chapter 7, "Configuring Discovery And Assessment Policies; Overview - IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Manual

Chapter 7
Configuring Discovery and Assessment
Policies

Overview

Introduction
Scanning
dependencies
Prerequisite
In this chapter
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The major effort in defining discovery and assessment background scans is in configuring
the Discovery and Assessment policies. This chapter describes the options available in
those policies. To finish configuring a background scan or to run an ad hoc scan, see the
references below.
The Discovery and Assessment policies define only a portion of the requirements for
background and for ad hoc scanning.
For additional background scanning requirements, see Chapter 6, "Defining
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Background Scans" on page 81.
For additional ad hoc scanning requirements, see Chapter 14, "Running Ad Hoc
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Scans" on page 191.
Before you modify policies, you must understand how to locate them in the SiteProtector
Console. For an introduction to viewing policies, see "Viewing Asset and Agent Policies"
on page 74.
This chapter contains the following topics:
Topic
How Policies Apply to Discovery and Assessment Scans
Defining Assets to Discover (Discovery Policy)
Defining Assessment Details Introduction (Assessment Policy)
Description of Check Information (Assessment Policy)
Grouping and Displaying Checks (Assessment Policy)
Defining Common Assessment Settings (Assessment Policy)
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