How signature registration settings work

Signature registration is the process of selecting which policy signatures are to be scanned and optionally specifying a schedule for when to run the scan.

You can determine the scope of the signature scan, that is, which hosts are scheduled to be scanned for the selected signatures, depending on where you register the signatures, as follows:

Registering signatures by Organization helps ensure policy compliance within the Organization and is also more convenient.

It is possible to register signatures using different settings for a host or a cluster than for the rest of the Organization to which it belongs. The most recent registration settings take precedence.

Therefore, the recommended sequence is to first register the signatures at the Organization level. Then, as needed, you can modify signature settings at the lower (host or cluster) level. Note that if you later modify the signature settings at the Organization level, the Organization settings will override any settings that were modified earlier at the lower level.

Some signatures have tunable parameters. After registering signatures, you can view the list of registered signatures to identify any that have tunable parameters, and then set the values for the tunables. As with signature registration, you can apply tunable parameters at the Organization level or at the host or cluster level, and the most recent settings take precedence.

Registered signatures are enabled by default. You can temporarily disable signatures so as to exclude them from a scan. As with other settings, you can enable or disable signatures at the Organization level or at the host or cluster level, and the most recent settings take precedence. With the appropriate permission to modify settings for Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager, you can also enable or disable policy signatures for the data center, and again, the most recent settings take precedence.

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