Activating Assets

You can activate your assets discovered through sources such as EASM, PS, and Third-Party for the Vulnerability Management (VM), Policy Compliance (PC), and Certificate View (CERT) modules from CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM).

Note: Asset activation is not supported for AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud assets and the QAGENT assets tracking method.

You can activate the asset for an individual or all three modules simultaneously. If you activate the asset for all modules, the Activate option is turned off for you.

The “Activate Asset” support for the said modules is available only for the asset tracking methods mentioned in the following table:

Asset Tracking MethodsAsset Tracking Methods

Asset Source	Asset Tracking Method (Before Activation)	Asset Tracking Method (After Activation)
EASM	EASM	IP, NETBIOS, or DNS Note: The default asset tracking method is IP.
Third-Party (ServiceNow, Webhook, or Active Directory)	SERVICE_NOW, WEBHOOK, or ACTIVE_DIRECTORY	IP, NETBIOS, or DNS Note: The default asset tracking method is IP.
PS	PASSIVE_SENSOR, PASSIVE_SCANNER	IP, NETBIOS, or DNS
IP, NETBIOS, DNS	IP, NETBIOS, DNS	IP, NETBIOS, or DNS

The following are the steps to activate assets for VM, CERT, and PC modules:

1. Go to Inventory > Assets tab and click Activate from an unmanaged asset’s “Quick Actions” menu to activate the asset for VM, PC, or CERT modules.

Activate Asset Option.

2. Complete the following steps to activate the asset for the required modules:

i. Turn on the toggles next to the modules to activate the asset for those modules. The rest of the selection options are shown then.

ii. Choose the tracking method, network, and asset group to which you want to assign the asset.

Note: If you activate the asset for one or two modules, the tracking method you selected at the time of the first activation is assigned for that asset, and at the time of the next activation, you can't select any other tracking method.

iii. Click the Add Tags checkbox to add a tag to the asset. The Include tags for selected hosts section is shown. Click the Add icon and add the required tags.

iv. Click Activate.

Once you activate the asset for the required modules, the IP address of that asset is added for the respective module scan. The modules are shown under the Modules column of the asset inventory.

Activate asset popup.