Discovery Job Enable & Disable

Discovery Job - Enable & Disable

The Summit Discovery Enable & Disable option is used to activate or deactivate a discovery-related job. The tool assists the Analyst or Administrator in pausing the Discovery scan so that they can control, monitor Discovery activity, and handle the threats related to potential security domains. It thus assists in creating threat-free system for all Discovery tasks. 

Figure: Discovery job - Enable & Disable

How is Summit implementing it?

In the Discovery Enable & Disable feature, Analyst can add the following functionality:

• Enable the inactive job and disable the active job with enable & disable option.
• Filter the active and inactive jobs to view respective Discovery jobs.

Features 

• Allows the Analyst to enable and disable the job at their ease.
• View the list of active and inactive Discovery jobs.
  
  

 Discovery job - Enable & Disable UI capabilities

This section discusses the UI capabilities of Discovery job - Enable & Disable feature. They are:

Enabling the inactive Discovery job

To enable the inactive Discovery job, perform the following steps:

1. Select Admin> Advanced>Discovery & Monitoring > Discovery. The LIST page is displayed.
   
   

2. On the LIST page, a list of Records is displayed.
   
   Figure: List of Records
   
   
3. Click View Inactive to view the list of Inactive jobs.
   
   Figure: List of Inactive jobs
   
   
4. Click the specific Job Name on the Discovery page.
   
   
   Figure: Job details
   
   
   
5. Check the Active control box to enable the Discovery.
   
   Figure: Check the Active control
   
   
6. Click SUBMIT to get the enable the Inactive jobs.
   
   

   Note

   A pop-up box gets displayed with message as shown in the screen shot.

   

7. Click SHOW LIST on the ACTIONS panel.  The list displays all the configured active discovery jobs for a particular Tenant.
   
   
   Figure: SHOW LIST to view the list of Discovery values
   
   

          Figure: List of Active jobs 

Disabling the active Discovery job

To disable the active Discovery job, perform the following steps:

1.   Select Admin> Advanced>Discovery & Monitoring > Discovery. The JOB DETAILS page is displayed.
   
   
2. On the JOB DETAILS page, a list of Records is displayed.
   
   Figure: List of Records
   
   
3. Click the specific Job Name on the Discovery page.

   

   
   Figure: Job details
   
   

4. Uncheck the Active control box to disable the Discovery of Active jobs.
   
   Figure: Uncheck the Active control
   
   
5. Click SUBMIT to disable the Active jobs.
   
   

   Figure: Submit to disable Active jobs

   Note

   A pop-up box gets displayed with message as shown in the screen shot.

   

6. Click SHOW LIST on the ACTIONS panel.  The list displays all the configured Inactive discovery jobs for a particular Tenant.

   
   

   Figure: SHOW LIST to display Inactive Jobs