Assets

The Assets page in the application lists the managed and scanned assets.

The Managed Assets tab shows a list of assets that are available in TrueSight Server Automation. When patch policies identify missing patches on assets, the assets with missing patches and other details appear on the Managed Assets page. Missing patches are identified only for assets with Windows or Linux operating systems.

The Scanned Assets tab shows a list of assets imported from a vulnerability scan file, their mapping to endpoints in an endpoint manager, and the number of vulnerabilities identified for each asset. After you import a vulnerability scan file in BMC Helix Automation Console, assets are automatically mapped to endpoints managed by the endpoint manager, TrueSight Server Automation. During auto-mapping, Automation Console matches the FQDN or hostname and then the IP address of an asset in a scan to the endpoint.

Automation Console may not always correctly auto-map all endpoints because firewalls, load balancers, and proxies can cause discrepancies in mapping. You can manually map each unmapped asset to a single endpoint only. If you map an asset to an endpoint, which is already mapped, the existing mapping is overwritten and the asset is mapped to the new endpoint. 

The total number of assets from a scan file and assets with missing patches appears at the top of the page. You can perform a basic or advanced search using filters to look for specific data. 

Where to go from here

To view a list of assets with vulnerabilities and missing patches, and map assets, see Working-with-assets.