Managing tags

Enrich assets by defining and assigning tags to your assets. You can create and assign appropriate tags to the assets based on multiple criteria, for example, asset criticality or business context. Asset tagging helps you to classify and organize your assets for better management.

About this task

IBM Guardium® Insights SaaS provides a set of tags and the associated tag categories. You can also create your own custom tag and associate it with a tag category.

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

   By default, a list of all the assets in the inventory and their attributes is displayed in tabular format on the Asset inventory page. You can apply appropriate filters to the asset list to focus on the content that you want.

2. Select an asset from the list and click Manage tags. You can select multiple assets.
3. On the Manage tags window, assign tags.

   Assigning available tags

   You can assign multiple tags to the selected asset.

   1. Under Unassigned, select the appropriate tags from various categories. Use the sort tags icon () to specify a sort operation for sorting tags.

      You can view the assigned tags for all the assets that you selected under Assigned to all.

   Creating and assigning tags

   You can create custom tags to suit your business needs and then assign them to the selected assets.

   1. Click Create tag.
   2. On the Create tag window, specify a name for the tag, and add a description.
   3. Associate the tag with a predefined tag category. You can also create a category according to your needs.
      1. Click the Create category icon ().
      2. On the Create category window, specify a category name and description.
      3. To save the category, click Create.
   4. To save the tag information, click Create.

      The tag is listed in the Manage tags window under the Unassigned section.

   5. Click the tag that you created for assigning to the selected assets.

   Editing and assigning a tag

   You can edit tag information based on your needs.

   1. Under Unassigned, select your tag
   2. Click the edit icon ().
   3. On the Edit tag window, make the necessary changes.
   4. Click Update.
   5. On the Manage tags window, click the tag that you edited for assigning to the selected asset.

   Removing a tag from the assigned list

   1. Under Assigned to all, click the clear icon on the selected tag.
   2. To remove all the assigned tags, click Remove all tags.

   Save the changes

   To save the tag information, click Save changes.

What to do next

On the Asset inventory page, you can view the tag information that is assigned to the selected assets.