Defining Assessment Details Introduction (Assessment Policy) - IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Manual

Chapter 7: Configuring Discovery and Assessment Policies

Defining Assessment Details Introduction (Assessment Policy)

Introduction
Scope
Policy contents
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An Assessment policy defines parameters that specify how to assess a group of assets. The
policy contains two tabs, and the instructions for each tab are provided as follows:
For this tab... See...
Checks "Description of Check Information (Assessment Policy)" on page 101 and
"Grouping and Displaying Checks (Assessment Policy)" on page 103.
Common Settings "Defining Common Assessment Settings (Assessment Policy)" on page 106.
Table 37: Information about each tab in the Assessment policy
The Assessment policy applies only to assessment scans that run in the background. Ad
hoc scans read this policy and use its settings to initialize the ad hoc Assessment policy.
You can change the ad hoc version of the policy without changing the saved background
version.
An Assessment policy includes the following information:
a list of assessment checks
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check-specific configuration parameters
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common assessment settings that define additional scanning behavior
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