IBM Proventia Network Enterprise User Manual - Policies
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IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Guide, Version 1.3
Chapter 7
Configuring Discovery and Assessment
Policies
Overview
Introduction
The major effort in defining discovery and assessment background scans is in configuring
the Discovery and Assessment policies. This chapter describes the options available in
those policies. To finish configuring a background scan or to run an ad hoc scan, see the
references below.
Scanning
dependencies
The Discovery and Assessment policies define only a portion of the requirements for
background and for ad hoc scanning.
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For additional background scanning requirements, see Chapter 6, "Defining
Background Scans" on page 81.
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For additional ad hoc scanning requirements, see Chapter 14, "Running Ad Hoc
Scans" on page 191.
Prerequisite
Before you modify policies, you must understand how to locate them in the SiteProtector
Console. For an introduction to viewing policies, see “Viewing Asset and Agent Policies”
on page 74.
In this chapter
This chapter contains the following topics:
Topic
Page
How Policies Apply to Discovery and Assessment Scans
98
Defining Assets to Discover (Discovery Policy)
99
Defining Assessment Details Introduction (Assessment Policy)
100
Description of Check Information (Assessment Policy)
101
Grouping and Displaying Checks (Assessment Policy)
103
Defining Common Assessment Settings (Assessment Policy)
106