Defining Perspectives - IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Manual

Defining Perspectives

Introduction
Perspectives in
policies
Illustration
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To use perspectives, you must define the perspective, assign at least one agent to the
perspective, and then associate the perspective with a group of assets to scan.
The meaning of perspective depends on the policy where you define or select it. Table 42
describes the meaning of perspective in different policies:
You...
define a perspective as a network location
assign an agent to a perspective
identify the perspective from which you
want to scan groups of assets
Table 42: Perspectives in policies
Figure 23 illustrates the relationships between perspectives and policies described in
Table 42:
Figure 23: Network locations in the ESM, Network Locations, and Scan Control policies
In the...
Network Locations policy
(See page 112.)
ESM policy (See page
110.)
Scan Control policy (See
page 87.)

Defining Perspectives

And it applies to...
the entire Site.
a particular agent.
the group, or groups, to
scan with that policy.
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