Nutanix Prism Central - Associate Categories

Nutanix Prism Central - Associate Categories associates category names with Nutanix Prism Central VMs or Clusters for:

Assets returned by the selected query or assets selected on the relevant asset page.

See Creating Enforcement Sets to learn more about adding Enforcement Actions to Enforcement Sets.

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Note:

Not all asset types are supported for all Enforcement Actions.

See Actions supported for Activity Logs, Adapters Fetch History, and Asset Investigation modules.

See Actions supported for Vulnerabilities.

See Actions supported for Software.

Required Fields

These fields must be configured to run the Enforcement Action.

Action name - The name of this Enforcement Action. The system sets a default name. You can change the name.
Configure Dynamic Values - Toggle on to enter a Dynamic Value statement. See Creating Enforcement Action Dynamic Value Statements to learn more about Dynamic Value statement syntax.

Use stored credentials from the Nutanix Prism Central adapter - Select this option to use credentials from the adapter connection. By default, the first connection is selected.
- When you select this option, the Select Adapter Connection drop-down becomes available. Select the adapter connection to use for this Enforcement Action.
  
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  To use this option, you must successfully configure a Nutanix Prism Central adapter connection.
Categories to Associate - Category names to associate with Nutanix Prism Central VM / Cluster.
Compute Node - The Axonius node to use when connecting to the specified host. For more details, see Working with Axonius Compute Nodes.

Additional Fields

These fields are optional.

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Connection and Credentials

When Use stored credentials from the adapter is toggled off, some of the connection fields below are required to create the connection, while other fields are optional.

Host Name or IP Address - The hostname or IP address of the Nutanix Prism Central server. Example IP address format: 198.0.0.1:9440

User Name and Password - The credentials for a user account that has permissions to fetch assets.

Verify SSL (optional) - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.

HTTPS Proxy (optional) - Connect the adapter to a proxy instead of directly connecting it to the domain.

HTTPS Proxy Password (optional) - The password to use when connecting to the server using the HTTPS Proxy.

HTTPS Proxy User Name (optional) - The user name to use when connecting to the server using the HTTPS Proxy.

Gateway Name - Select the Gateway through which to connect to perform the action.

APIs

Axonius uses Nutanix API v4.0:

Get categories - Nutanix for Developers
Associate with VM - Nutanix for Developers
Associate with Cluster - Nutanix for Developers

Required Permissions

The stored credentials, or those provided in Connection and Credentials, must have the following permission(s) to perform this Enforcement Action:

See the Nutanix API documentation linked above.

Updated 3 days ago