New Guide - VulnDetect Quick Guide

New Guide - VulnDetect Quick Guide


This guide provides a quick process to help you set up and start using SecTeer VulnDetect.
Please see the most recent version of our Technical Guide for further details of all SecTeer VulnDetect's features. 

Login and Install Agents

To set up your account and log in to the console, click the link you received in the email from SecTeer.  
Once logged in to the system, go to the Configuration page to download and install the agent installer.
You can also set the period you want to run the inspections and updates. After being installed, the agent runs in the 
background and starts reporting to the SecTeer VulnDetect console.

Applications

Use the Applications page to check every application and its status. Each application is based on the scheduled scans reported by the installed agents. The number of installations and versions of each application are displayed so that you can make necessary updates where required.

 

Create Rules for Patching

Use the Patching section to access Approvals page to approve and deploy pre-configured packages.
Idea
We recommend you create a test group and assign test systems to it so that you can see how the updates/installations work before applying them to the production system.

Approvals page

On the Approvals page you will see a list of applications indicating the site default approval action for each application.  

Choose the applications to approve, then select one of the rules below:
  1. Automate Selected Approvals to automatically deploy all future updates 
  2. Approve Version in Selected Approvals to manually approve updates when new versions are available
    1. Manual approvals will be out-of-date until the new version is approved 
  3. Set Selected Approvals to Block Updates to disable updates from being made available 
  4. Set Selected Approvals to Inherit to inherit the system default or site default action, as applicable

Notes
Please note: Updates will not be approved If all applicable approvals are set to Inherit for a host. Next, deploy the updates to the recommended version collectively to the group. 

Next, deploy the updates to the recommended version collectively to the group. 


Patching Activity Page

The Patching Activity page displays the application's patching activity. The activities are:
  1. The next version to update
  2. The time of the application's next planned inspection 
  3. The status of the inspection (for example, Disk full, Reboot Required, Failed, or Updated)

Deployment

Use the Deployment page to deploy your installation/uninstallation job(s)
Notes
Please note: The available settings will vary depending on the selected application.
On the Jobs page you can create jobs for installation/uninstallation of applications.
Follow the steps below to easily create a job:
  1. Select applications for the job.
  2. Select the Group(s), Tag(s) or Host(s) to target for the deployment.
  3. Fill out the name and optionally description of the job.
  4. Deploy the job.
Go to the Jobs page to display all the software deployment jobs and stop or resume the deployment process.  
Go to the Job Activity page to view the details and status of the deployment job activities (Uninstalling, Installing, and Disk Full). 
Jobs page:

Job Activity page: