Security Center Enterprise edition provides the asset fingerprints feature. This feature
supports automatic fingerprint collection that runs periodically and manual fingerprint
collection. This topic describes how to collect asset fingerprint data.
Background information
Security Center Enterprise edition supports the asset fingerprints feature. By default,
it does not automatically collect asset fingerprint data.
You must set the refresh frequencies of asset fingerprints to automate collection
tasks.
You can also manually run collection tasks to collect fingerprint data of individual
assets.
- Automatic collection tasks: You can set the refresh frequencies of ports, software, processes, accounts, and
scheduled tasks to automate collection tasks that run periodically.
- Manual collection tasks: You can manually run collection tasks to collect fingerprint data of individual
assets. To manually run a collection task, navigate to the Assets > Asset Fingerprints tab.
Note
- If this is your first time using the asset fingerprints feature, we recommend that
you set the refresh frequencies to automate collection tasks. Automatic collection
tasks collect fingerprint data of all assets.
- You can run manual collection tasks to collect the latest fingerprint data of individual
assets only.
Automatic collection
- Login Cloud security center console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, click .
- On the Asset Fingerprints page, click Settings in the upper-right corner.
- In the Settings dialog box that appears, set the refresh frequencies of the fingerprints.
Fingerprint |
Refresh frequency |
Ports |
Valid values:
- Disable: The default setting. After the refresh frequency is set to Disable, Security
Center does not run automatic collection tasks to collect the latest fingerprint data.
- Collected once an hour
- Collected once every 3 hours
- Collected once every 12 hours
- Collected once a day
- Collected once every 7 days
Note By default, the refresh frequencies of all fingerprints are set to Disable. You can set different refresh frequencies for the fingerprints.
|
Processes |
Accounts |
Software |
Scheduled tasks |
After the refresh frequencies are set, Security Center runs automatic collection tasks
based on the refresh frequencies. The latest data of the fingerprints are collected
and displayed on the Asset Fingerprints page.
Manual collection
Navigate to the Assets page, and click the target server. Click Collect data now to manually run a collection task. For more information, see Manage individual assets.
What to do next
After the collection task is completed, navigate to the Asset Fingerprints page, and click the corresponding tab. The latest data is displayed on the tab. For
more information, see View asset fingerprint data.