Tanium Asset

The Tanium Asset adapter provides an inventory of hardware and software assets including servers, laptops, and desktops for thorough insight

Parameters

1. Hostname or IP Address (required) - The Hostname or IP address of the Tanium server that Axonius can communicate with via the Required Ports. This adapter supports both on-premise and Tanium Cloud instances. When connecting to a Tanium Cloud instance, "-api" must be added to the end of the subdomain of your Tanium Cloud instance. For example: "domain.cloud.tanium.com" should be entered as "domain-api.cloud.tanium.com".
2. User Name or API Token ID (required) - The credentials for a user account that has the Required Permissions to fetch assets. If an API token is being used for authentication, this must be the ID of the API token. The Token ID column in Tanium may be hidden.
3. Password or API Token (required) - The credentials for a user account that has the Required Permissions to fetch assets. If an API token is being used for authentication, this must be the API token string.

5. Verify SSL (required, default: False) - Verify the SSL certificate offered by the value supplied in Hostname or IP Address. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.
   • If enabled, the SSL certificate offered by the value supplied in Hostname or IP Address will be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius. If the SSL certificate can not be validated against the CA database inside of Axonius, the connection will fail with an error.
   • If disabled, the SSL certificate offered by the value supplied in Hostname or IP Address will not be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius.
6. HTTPS Proxy (optional, default: empty) - A proxy to use when connecting to the value supplied in Hostname or IP Address.
   • If supplied, Axonius will utilize the proxy when connecting to the value supplied in Hostname or IP Address.
   • If not supplied, Axonius will connect directly to the value supplied in Hostname or IP Address.
7. For details on the common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.

Advanced Settings

The Tanium Asset adapter has advanced settings which control the logic for fetching assets.

1. Number of assets to fetch per page (required, default: 200) - Control the number of assets that are fetched per page.
2. Number of seconds to wait in between each page fetch (required, default: 1) - Control the number of seconds to wait in between each page.
3. Devices to exclude by host name (optional, default: Empty) - A comma seperated list of device host names to exclude.
4. Devices to exclude by model (optional, default: Empty) - A comma seperated list of device models to exclude.
5. Devices to exclude by domain (optional, default: Empty) - A comma seperated list of device domain names to exclude.
6. Populate Dynamic Attributes (optional, default: False) - Dynamically create fields in Axonius for all attributes returned by Tanium Asset.
   • If enabled, adapter specific fields will be dynamically created in Axonius for all attributes returned for each asset with the appropriately mapped type as defined in Tanium.
   • If disabled, adapter specific fields will not be dynamically created in Axonius.

Required Ports

Axonius must be able to communicate with the value supplied in Hostname or IP Address via the following ports:

• TCP port 443: REST API

Required Permissions

• Required Module Permissions

Required Module Permissions

A Module Role named Asset Report Reader exists that provides these Module Permissions:

1. Asset Report Read

Assigning Required Permissions

These are the steps to assign the Required Permissions to the value supplied in User Name:

1. Log in to the value supplied in Hostname or IP Address with an account that has the permissions necessary to edit users.
2. In the navigation menu:
   1. Go to the Administration > Users page.
3. In the Users Page:
   1. Select the value supplied in User Name from the list of users.
   2. Click View User.
4. In the User Administration page in the Roles and Effective Permissions section:
   1. Click Edit Roles.
5. In the Assign Roles page in the Role Management > Grant Roles section:
   1. Click Edit.
6. In the Edit Grant Roles dialog window:
   1. Select the role named Asset Report Reader.
   2. Click Save.
7. In the Assign Roles page:
   1. Click Show Preview to Continue.
   2. Click Save.
8. In the Notice dialog window:
   1. Click Continue.
9. The User Administration page should look like this:
   
10. Perform the steps in Verifying Permissions

Verifying Permissions

1. Log in to the value supplied in Hostname or IP Address with the values supplied in User Name and Password.
2. In the navigation menu:
   1. Go to the Asset page.
3. In the Asset menu of the Asset page:
   1. Go to the Reports page.
4. In the Asset Reports page:
   1. Click the All Assets report

Field Mappings

The following tables show how values are mapped to fields in Axonius.

Aggregated Fields

Adapter Specific Fields

Version Matrix

This adapter has only been tested with the versions marked as supported, but may work with other versions. Please contact Axonius Support if you have a version that is not listed and it is not functioning as expected.

Asset Module Versions

Modules within Tanium have their own version which is separate from the platform version.