Defining Perspectives (Network Locations Policy) - IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Manual

Chapter 8: Defining Agent Policies

Defining Perspectives (Network Locations Policy)

Introduction
What is
perspective?
Default perspective
When to use
additional
perspectives
Implication of
perspective names
Required
permissions
Procedure
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Use the Network Locations policy to define the Perspective (network location) of an
agent. The Network Locations policy occurs once for each Site and contains all the
perspectives for the Site.
A perspective is a name that represents the network location of one or more agents. You
associate a perspective with a group to scan in the Scan Control policy. Agents assigned to
that perspective in the ESM policy run the scans.
"What is Perspective?" on page 124 and "One Way to Use Perspective" on
Reference:
page 126.
The Network Locations policy contains a default perspective, Global, which you can not
delete. You can use the Global perspective without adding any additional perspectives, or
you can use it along with user-defined perspectives.
Perspective is most important when you have multiple agents located at different
locations on your network. To distinguish among them, you must use more than one
perspective.
When you choose a perspective name, choose a name that represents the location on the
network that the perspective references. Consider that, technically, a perspective
represents a set of subnets from which you would expect the same results for scanning
and monitoring your network regardless of where you connected your agents within that
set of subnets.
For important requirements for users who do not have full permissions in SiteProtector,
see "Scanning without full permissions" on page 65.
To define a perspective:
1. In the SiteProtector Console, set up a tab to display agent policies. (See page 74.)
2. On the navigation pane, expand the Site, and then select the Network Locations
policy for the Site.
The policy is listed just below the Site.
Note:
3. Select the Network Locations tab, and then click the Add Network Location icon.
4. Type the perspective name in the Network Location Name box, and then click OK.
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