Automatic Asset Joining With Netsec
Purpose
This document describes the ways assets are automatically joined in the Portal.
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Introduction
In Outpost24 Portal, assets are constructs made up of identifiers like IPs, hostnames, MAC addresses, or cloud region/tenant IDs. The Automatic Asset Joining feature uses a micro service that evaluates identifiers found during scans against existing assets using matching heuristics. When identifiers align with enough confidence, they merge into a single asset, preventing duplicates. If no match is found, a new asset is created. This improves inventory accuracy, ensures consistency across multiple scans, and helps maintain a clean view of your environment.
Automatic Asset Joining
Assets are constructed using a micro service that through different heuristics evaluate the matching between the asset identifiers found during a scan with the already existing assets in the database.
There are several different types of identifiers such as:
IP
Hostname
MAC
AWS_REGION
MAZ_TENANT_ID
If multiple matches are found, the one with the highest score will be selected. If the service determines that none match ?enough? a new asset is established instead.
Assets related to SWAT, Snapshot, and Assure subscriptions will never be joined with assets constructed by the other products.
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