Defining Vendors and Vendor Aliases for Patch Management - PAS Integrity Software Suite - 7.3 - Help - Intergraph

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Since vendor names can vary across the information the PAS Recon asset model collects, you need to define vendors and vendor aliases to help streamline and simplify your patch management. With vendor aliases, you can identify variations, such as Honeywell Inc and Honeywell International Inc, as the same vendor. Integrity can also use these vendor aliases to improve other functional areas. The main reason for defining and using vendor aliases is to narrow searches for specific Microsoft bulletins.

Do not confuse vendor aliases with normalization rules. Vendor aliases are specific to Patch Management in Integrity

Initially, the list of Vendors is blank. You should create a vendor name for each vendor you use, and then associate all variations of that vendor name collected by the PAS Recon asset model to treat them all as that one vendor name you created.

To create a vendor and associate vendor aliases:

  1. Open the Cyber Integrity web interface.

  2. Click Patches > Vendor Aliases in the left navigation bar.

  3. Click Add New Vendor.

  4. Type a name for the new Vendor, and then click Save New Vendor. The new name is added to the list of Vendors.

  5. Select the new name in the Vendors list, and then click Edit Vendor Aliases. The Add a New Alias window is displayed.

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  6. Click a variation of that vendor name in the Available Vendor Aliases list, and then click Add. That name is added to the Selected Vendor Aliases list. Continue to add other variations of that vendor name.

  7. If you want to type a vendor name to add to the Selected Vendor Aliases list, type the name in the Or Type a new Alias field, and then click the Add button to the right of that field.

  8. If you want to remove a vendor name from the Selected Vendor Aliases list, select the name in the Selected Vendor Aliases list, and then click Remove.

  9. Click Save Aliases.

After you have created vendors and associated their vendor aliases, you can create vendor bulletins using those vendors.