The Asset Manager provides a centralized location that allows you to discover, manually create, and import assets.
An asset is any device with an IP address added to Trellix ESM. The Asset Manager enables you to manage the assets on your network.
You can create a group to contain one or more assets. You can perform the following operations on the entire group:
Change the attributes for all assets in a group.
Note
This change is not persistent. If you add an asset to a changed group, the asset doesn't inherit the previous settings automatically.
Use drag-and-drop operations.
Rename groups.
Asset groups allow you to categorize assets in ways that are unavailable with asset tagging. For example, if you want to create an asset group for each building on your campus. The asset consists of an IP address and a collection of tags. The tags describe the operating system the asset is running and a collection of services for which the asset is responsible.
Asset tags are defined in one of two ways:
When the system retrieves an asset.
When the user adds or edits an asset.
If the system sets up the tags, they are updated each time the asset is retrieved if they have changed. If the user sets up the tags, the system does not update the tag when the asset is retrieved, even if they have changed. If you add or edit the tags of an asset but you want the system to update them when the asset is retrieved, click Reset. You must complete this action each time you change the tag settings.
Configuration management is part of standard compliance regulations such as PCI, HIPAA, and SOX. It allows you to monitor any changes that might be made to the configuration of your routers and switches, thus preventing system vulnerabilities. On the Trellix ESM, the configuration management feature enables you to:
Set the frequency with which devices must be polled.
Select the discovered devices on which to check configuration.
Identify a retrieved configuration file as the default for the device.
View the configuration data, download the data to a file, and compare the configuration information of the two devices.