Configuring common assessment settings for an Assessment policy

Use the Common Settings tab in the Assessment policy to choose settings that define additional scanning behavior for the checks you have selected to run in an assessment scan.

Procedure

1.Click Scan Policy Management in the navigation pane.

2.Select Assessment from the Policy Types list, and then click Add.

3.Type a name for the scan policy.

4.Click the Common Settings tab.

5.Type the URL or file location for the assessment check Help documentation in the Help HTML Prefix box:

vThe IBM ISS Web site location of up-to-date assessment check documentation.

vThe file location of a locally stored version of the documentation.

6.If you want to run the checks that are enabled by default, including checks added in an X-Press Update (XPU), select a policy in the Compliance Policies section.

CAUTION:

Custom Policy (All) runs all vulnerability checks, including DOS checks.

7.Configure options for service discovery in the Service Discovery section:

Option

Description

 

 

Discover and report TCP services

Reports active TCP services for which the

 

Service Scan flag is enabled in the Network

 

Services policy.

 

 

Discover and report UDP services

Reports active UDP services for which the

 

Service Scan flag is enabled in the Network

 

Services policy.

 

 

8.Configure options for assessment port ranges in the Assessment Port Ranges section:

Option

Description

 

 

Ports to scan with generic TCP checks

The set of TCP ports to scan with generic

 

TCP checks. You can specify ports using any

 

of the following methods:

 

v Type a port or range of ports.

 

v Click Well known and select ports from

 

the list.

 

v Select All.

 

Note: A generic TCP check is one whose

 

target type is tcp.

 

 

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IBM Partner Pavilion 2.3 manual Click the Common Settings tab, Option Description Discover and report TCP services