Defining assessment credentials for a policy
Use the Assessment Credentials policy on the SiteProtector Console to define authentication credentials for your assets.
About this task
The appliance uses authentication credentials to access accounts during assessment scans. Enterprise Scanner uses all instances of the credentials that are defined for the group when it scans assets in the group. You can define different instances of this policy for different groups, which makes it possible to supply different log on credentials to scan different parts of the network.
Important: The Assessment Credentials policy currently works only with assets that run Windows operating systems.
Procedure
1.From the SiteProtector Console, create a tab to display asset policies.
2.In the navigation pane, select a group, and then open the Assessment Credentials policy for that group.
3.In the Assessment Credentials policy, click Add, and then provide the following account information:
Option | Description |
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Username | The user identification for an account. |
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Password | The password to use with the user name to |
| log into an account. |
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Account Type: Windows Local | Indicates that the user account is defined |
| locally on a single Windows device. The |
| account is used to attempt to log in to a |
| single Windows device. |
| When you choose this option, you must |
| provide a Windows host name in the |
| Domain/Host box. |
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Account Type: Windows | Indicates that the user account is defined in |
Domain/Workgroup | a Windows Domain or Workgroup. The |
| account is used to attempt to log in to all |
| Windows devices within the domain or |
| workgroup. |
| When you choose this option, you must |
| provide the Windows Domain or Workgroup |
| name in the Domain/Host box. |
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Account Type: Windows Active Directory | Indicates that the user account is defined in |
| a Windows Active Directory Domain. The |
| account is used to attempt to log in to all |
| Windows devices within the Active |
| Directory domain. |
| When you choose this option, you must |
| provide the Active Directory Domain name |
| in the Domain/Host box. |
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