Creating Smart Group Filters and Viewing Data
Smart Groups are the medium by which a Software Vulnerability Manager user views scan results. You are able to see the hosts, products, and associated advisories that are available to you, based on your view of the network as configured by your administrator. Furthermore, you are able to create custom filtered views of each of these using a variety of predefined criteria. The All Hosts, All Products, and All Advisory default Smart Groups are created by Flexera and cannot be edited or deleted. They represent an unfiltered view for their respective content. Use the filters when creating additional Smart Groups to effectively customize the data you are most interested in, and want to see, create reports on, receive alerts and notifications about, and see dashboard portlet data on. Smart Groups are the basis by which most data in Software Vulnerability Manager are viewed, and can be used effectively to optimize your workflow.
Smart Groups are generated periodically, and the data you see is only as current as the last time the Smart Group was compiled. At any time, you can queue the recompilation of a Smart Group to get the most current data.
Within the Smart Group grids, you can double-click to view/edit an existing group’s configuration. Alternatively, right-click a Smart Group to view, edit, compile or delete the group.
In the Create/Edit grid, check for the smart groups which you want to compile and click on Queue For Compilation. The selected group will update within minutes to update the data and notifications for the group. You can also compile by right-click on any smart group and select Queue For Compilation.
Click Create New Smart Group to configure a new Smart Group. Click + and – to add or remove criteria.