Processing The Advisor Feed - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - 02-2010 User Manual

NOTE: The Exploit Detection section initially displays a blank list unless you process the
initial Advisor feed that was loaded during Sentinel installation. For more information, see
Section 8.3.2, "Processing the Advisor Feed," on page
Figure 8-1

8.3.2 Processing the Advisor Feed

You can process the Advisor feed files manually or you can configure the Sentinel server to
automatically process the feed files at scheduled time intervals.
"Processing the Feed Files Manually" on page 164
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 "Processing the Feed Files Automatically" on page 165
Processing the Feed Files Manually
1 In the Advisor window, select the directory where you downloaded the latest Advisor feed
files.
The initial Advisor feed is loaded at
2 Click Process Now to process and load the feed files into the Sentinel database.
After the feed files are processed, the products included in the feed files are displayed in the
Exploit Detection section.
3 (Optional) Click Save to save the location of the Advisor directory.
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ESEC_HOME/data/updates/advisor
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