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Contents of Asset and Agent Policies
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Contents of Asset and Agent Policies
Introduction
This topic provides high-level descriptions of the contents of asset and agent policies.
Contents for each
type of policy
The following table describes the general contents of asset policies and agent policies:
Illustration 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
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