Tenable.io - Add or Remove Tags to/from Assets
  • 16 Mar 2023
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Tenable.io - Add or Remove Tags to/from Assets

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Tenable.io - Add or Remove Tags to/from Assets (Tag Tenable.io Assets) adds or removes specified tags to Tenable.io assets which are retrieved from the saved query supplied as a trigger (or to devices selected in the asset table).

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

General Settings

  • Enforcement Set name (required) - The name of the Enforcement Set. A default value is added by Axonious. You can change the name according to your needs.
  • Add description (optional) - Click to add a description of the Enforcement Set. It is recommended to describe what the Enforcement Set does.
  • Run action on assets matching following query (required) - Select an asset category and a query. The Enforcement Action will be run on the assets that match the query parameters.
  • Action name - The name of the Main action. A default value is added by Axonious. You can change the name according to your needs.
  • Configure Action Conditions - Toggle on to enter a condition statement. See Configuring Enforcement Action Conditions to learn more about condition statement syntax.

Connection Settings

  1. Use stored credentials from the Tenable.io Adapter (required, default: True) - Select this option to use the first connected Tenable.io adapter credentials.
NOTE
To use this option, you must successfully configure a Tenable.io adapter connection.
  1. Tenable.io domain (optional, default: empty) - The IP address or hostname of your Tenable.io management server.
NOTE

If Use stored credentials from the Tenable.io Adapter is disabled, this field is required.

  1. Access API key and Secret API key (required) - These values must be created in the Tenable.io console. To generate an API key in the Tenable.io console, see Tenable.io - Generate an API Key.
NOTE

If Use stored credentials from the Tenable.sc Adapter is disabled, this field is required.

  1. Verify SSL (required, default: False) - Verify the SSL certificate offered by the host supplied in Tenable.io Domain. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.
    • If enabled, the SSL certificate offered by the host will be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius. If it fails validation, the connection will fail with an error.
    • If disabled, the SSL certificate offered by the host will not be verified against the CA database inside of Axonius.
  2. HTTPS proxy (optional, default: empty) - A proxy to use when connecting to Tenable.io Domain.
    • If supplied, Axonius will utilize the proxy when connecting to the host defined for this connection.
    • If not supplied, Axonius will connect directly to the host defined for this connection.

Action Settings

  1. Action type (required, default: Add) - Select the action type:
    • Add - Select to add tags. The Category Name field is required when adding tags. It can be found in the Additional Fields section.
    • Remove - Select to remove tags.
  2. Tags Names (required, default: empty) - Specify a comma-separated list of Tags to be add/removed to or from Tenable.io assets.
  3. Create new tags if they do not exist (required, default: false) - If the tag names are listed that do not already exist in Tenable.io you can set this parameter to choose to create them.
    • If enabled - creates new tags that do not already exist in Tenable.io
    • If disabled - tags that do not exist in Tenable.io will not be created and therefore will not be added to the assets.
  4. Category Name (optional) - Add a Tenable.io category name.

For more details about other Enforcement Actions available, see Action Library.


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