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Contents of Asset and Agent Policies
Introduction
Contents for each
type of policy
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IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Guide, Version 1.3
This topic provides high-level descriptions of the contents of asset and agent policies.
The following table describes the general contents of asset policies and agent policies:
Type of Policy
Content of Policies
Asset
•
Information about how to run discovery and/or assessment scans against
the group.
•
For discovery scans, which IP addresses to scan.
•
For assessment scans, which checks to run, and other assessment
parameters.
•
On which days to run scans and during which hours to run them.
•
How frequently to run scans to refresh information about the assets in a
group.
•
Which assets in the group, if any, that you do not want to scan.
•
List of accounts and log on credentials to use for assets in a group.
•
How to associate service names with TCP and UDP ports.
Agent
•
How to manage log files.
•
The passwords to use for local accounts.
•
How to manage scans by dividing them into smaller subtasks per task.
•
The relative location of the agent on the network, known as its perspective.
•
How to apply updates to the agent.
•
Network configuration settings and DNS servers for the network interfaces.
Table 21: Contents of asset and agent policies
Figure 18 illustrates how asset and agent policies are grouped with the agent or the group
of assets to which they apply in the SiteProtector Console:
Figure 18: Enterprise Scanner asset and agent policies in a SiteProtector Console
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