IBM Proventia Network Enterprise User Manual - page 100
Chapter 7: Configuring Discovery and Assessment Policies
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Defining Assessment Details Introduction (Assessment Policy)
Introduction
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:
Scope
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.
Policy contents
An Assessment policy includes the following information:
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a list of assessment checks
●
check-specific configuration parameters
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common assessment settings that define additional scanning behavior
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