Investigating assets and their risk attributes

Review and manage the asset context information that is imported from various sources to the IBM Guardium® Insights SaaS asset inventory from one unified interface.

1. Click Asset inventory in the main menu () at the upper left of the page.

   On the Asset inventory page, you can see the introduction banner that provides a basic information about asset definition and asset sources. Click Read more to view the contents. Click the close icon () to remove the banner.

   By default, a list of all the assets that are in the asset repository is displayed on the Asset inventory page. The assets are imported from various sources at regular intervals and stored in the repository. You can also view the list of assets that are grouped by hostname. To focus on the asset contents that you want, you can apply various filters, customize the display of the columns, set a time range to view the asset list, or use the preset views.

   • To apply filters, click the filter icon () to open the Filters window, select the filter criteria, and then click Apply.
   • To customize the columns display in the table, click the customize columns icon (). In the Customize columns window, select all the columns that you want to display in the table, and drag the columns to reorder them. Click Done when you are finished.
   • To set a time frame for viewing the assets based on the selected attribute, click the edit icon () next to Timeline. Select an attribute from the drop-down list and the time frame.
   • If you filter the table, customized its columns, or set a time frame to view the asset list that you want, you can save these settings by creating a preset view. When you click a preset view, the table changes to reflect the filter and columns. Guardium Insights SaaS provides two default preset views: All assets and New assets identified. Click the preset to apply the preset filter and view the refreshed asset count.

     To create a preset view, click Create new preset. In the Create new preset window, specify a name, description, option to make the default view, and click Create preset. Each preset view card has a menu with options to rename the card, reorder the cards, remove the card, and to make the view as default.

   • To view the list of assets that are grouped by hostname, click the group icon () and select Hostname.
2. Review the asset attribute details in the asset list view. For more information, see Table 1.
3. To see more details of your selected asset, click the asset ID. The asset overview information is displayed in the side window.
4. To view the connected entities and their relationships with an interactive topology map, click Asset topology. On the topology map, you can view up to 10 connected entities. If the asset is connected with more than 10 entities, click the View all option on the last connected node to view details of the remaining entities. To close the topology, click the close icon.
   Note: You can view the connected entities only for the database asset type.
5. To view the complete details of the selected asset, click View full details.

   By default, the asset overview information is displayed in the Asset overview tab. For more information, see Table 2.

   To view the asset change log, click the Change log view tab. The asset change log helps you to track the changes that are made to the asset for proper management and auditing.