How to Use Agents Settings

To use Agents' settings use the following steps:

1. From the left side navigation menu, click Settings > Application Settings > Scans Settings.
2. Click the down arrow to expand the Agents section.
   
   
   
3. Complete the following settings:
4. • Agent search progress update intervals:
   • 1. Enter an interval (in seconds) for Agents to send search progress updates to the console.
     2. Minimum value: 60 (seconds)
     3. If a value less than 60 is entered, the value is automatically changed to 60 the moment you click elsewhere on the page or select another page
     4. Enabled by default
     5. Default value: 300 (seconds)
4. • Automatically update agent names:
   • 1. When enabled, the Console automatically updates the agent display name and host name when an agent's computer name changes.
     2. Disabled by default
     3. Computer name is communicated to the Console during initial agent registration and when search results are sent to the Console.
     4. When the Console processes the results for an agent, if the name provided with the agent GUID is different than the name stored in the database, the agent name is updated to the new name, (if this setting is enabled).
4. • Keep Agent Activity State History:
   • 1. When enabled, the Console records the various agents' states.
     2. The maximum states to keep determines how many states are recorded per agent.
     3. Agent states are statuses, such as when the agent is opened or closed, or when a search was started, paused, canceled or completed interactively.
     4. 1. Agent statuses do not include states related to tasks which are initiated from the Console, or via a scheduled task policy.
4. • Automatically merge agents based on:
   • 1. When enabled, the Console automatically merges agents that have any or all of the specified criteria in common
     2. By default, all radio buttons are cleared and automatic agent merging is disabled
     3. Select one of the following options:
     4. 1. Disable - Disables automatic agent merging
        2. Hostname - The hostname is generally the computer name assigned by the OS to an agent
        3. Mac Address - The Console tracks all MAC addresses for agents. As with IP addresses this also includes MAC addresses from all physical and virtual network adapters
        4. IP Address - The Console tracks all IPv4 addresses for agents. This includes all physical and virtual network adapters
        5. All - Includes Hostname, Mac Address, and IP Address
4. • Inherit permissions on targets from filter/IP tags:
   • 1. When enabled, if you create a role that has only permissions to a filtered/IP tag, that role also has permissions to the Targets within that filtered/IP tag.
     2. Enabled by default.
     3. When this setting is disabled and you create a role that only has permissions to a filtered/IP tag, the role does not have permissions to the Targets within that filtered/IP tag.
     4. To enable the role to have permissions to the Targets within the filtered/IP tag when the setting is disabled, you must also grant permissions for the role to a simple tag that contains the same endpoint within the filtered/IP tag or grant permission to the endpoint explicitly.