Agent policies for Enterprise Scanner
Agent policies apply to Enterprise Scanner appliances and describe operational settings for the agents or global settings for all scans. In addition, some agent policies apply to only one agent.
Agent policy descriptions for Enterprise Scanner
Agent policies apply to both ad hoc and background scans.
Contents of an agent policy
The general contents of an agent policy include:
vThe passwords to use for local accounts
vScan management (breaking scans down into smaller subtasks per task)
vThe relative location of the agent on the network, known as its perspective
vUpdates to the agent
vNetwork configuration settings and DNS servers for the network interfaces
vLog file management
Policy inheritance with agent policies
The following rules describe policy inheritance for agent policies:
vYou must define a unique Access, Networking, Services, and Time policy for each agent.
vYou can set up the Notification and Update policies to inherit their definitions from policies defined higher in the group structure.
vYou can define only one Network Locations policy, to be used for all agents and assets, at the Site level in your group structure.
In the SiteProtector Console, you select a group in the left pane and the applicable policies are displayed in the right pane. If you expand the group or agent, the policies are also displayed below the group or agent.
