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Discovering assets using VMWare Scan

You can run a Discovery job for discovering Windows and Unix VMWare assets. The discovered assets can be on-boarded automatically, if you choose to do so. All the discovered assets will be listed under Discovery View.

Procedure:

  1. Login to the system and select Platform Configuration from the product navigator.

  2. Start the Asset Discovery Service. Go to System → system status → app services → AssetDiscoveryService

  3. Go to PAM → Manage → Asset Discovery.

  4. Click on +Add New Discovery Job → select VMWare

  5. Specify the following details

Attributes 

Description

Job details

 

Job title

Enter a unique title for your scan job

Server

Enter server's IP Address which may be a jump server or proxy server or an SSH / RDP

Account Name

Provide a username who has unique permissions to discover other resources. This user must be valid user in the vault. Access key and Secret key is taken from the vault

Schedule type

Select a schedule type whether you would like to initiate this job once or recurring job.If you select a recurring job,you can choose days this job must be executed on.

For e.g. You want to schedule job every 2nd day at 5.00 p.m. from 1st Jan 2018 to scan your network, include following details:

Recur every: 2 days
Task Start: 01 Jan 2018
Schedule Start Time: 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm

Task Start

Select the date when the task begins

Schedule Time

You can either choose the "Any" or schedule a proper time from when to start the task and when to end the task

Action

 

On board assets

To start a scan manually with an option to add assets to specify profiles, click the Onboard asset as 'No'.

If you wish to include assets automatically to existing group and attributes, select option 'Yes'

Asset description(optional)

Added text will be included in every asset description field

Location(optional)

Added location field will be included in every asset location. You can configure system management location Configuring location tagging

Criticality level(optional)

Added critical field will be included in every asset. This is important while structuring reports and notifications

Tags (optional)

You can associate an asset with your desired single or multiple tags like Infosec, Banking Core Server, ATM Switches, etc.

Refer to section Tags for more information about adding context with tags.

Checkout policy

The option is selected as default as one can choose its policy by unchecking the default option and selecting the policy from the drop-down list available.

Rotation policy

The option is selected as default as one can choose its policy by unchecking the default option and selecting the policy from the drop-down list available

Reconciliation policy

The option is selected as default as one can choose its policy by unchecking the default option and selecting the policy from the drop-down list available.

Config value 1

The configuration value can be assigned here.

Config value 2

The configuration value can be assigned here.

Config value 3

The configuration value can be assigned here.

Config value 4

The configuration value can be assigned here.

Exclude from Account Discovery

When ticked, the accounts of this asset will be excluded from the Discovery job.

Owner(optional)

If you have listed owner information of all the assets, please include here

  1. If you want to run the job immediately, click on Save+ Run Now

  2. If you want to save the job for later, click on Save.

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