Hosts Table

Each row in the table contains all of the host information that Software Risk Manager is aware of for a particular host, and each column in the table is a set of values appropriate for a particular field of interest. Currently, Software Risk Manager only displays FQDN, NetBIOS Name, IP Address, MAC Address, Operating System, Open Ports, Environment, and Associated Projects.

Click View in the top right corner and use the toggles to select what information to display.

Software Risk Manager allows you to manually add new hosts to the selected Host Scope. The Create Host button is to the top right of the Hosts Table.

Clicking on it will bring up an interactive table where you can define the host that you are adding.

Clicking Add Value will produce a text field where you can enter a new value for the column you're editing. Note that a default value will be shown if the text field is empty and serves as an example of a valid value.

There is some validation applied to IP Address, MAC Address, and Open Ports. Typing in an invalid value for that field will cause the text field to be highlighted in red. Each invalid value is considered non-existent when clicking OK to create a Host with the specified values, and consequently will not appear in the Hosts Table when a host with invalid values is successfully created.

If you do not wish to include a value on a host, you may click the trash bin located at the far right of the cell to delete the value from consideration.

You can include any number of values for any particular column in the editor. Note that Associated Projects is not present in the editor. This is because Associated Projects is a derived field, found by determining if a host exists in a particular project. Also note that any columns that are missing in the Hosts Table as a consequence of disabling them in the "View" menu will still be shown while editing the hosts.

Software Risk Manager also allows you to manually edit existing normalized hosts in the Hosts Table. If you click on the button in the right most column of the Hosts Table, a drop down menu will appear. The first element in the drop down menu is "Edit Host".

Clicking on "Edit Host" will bring up the same interactive table that appears when you're manually adding a new host, except now you will see it in the table, as opposed to above it.

Software Risk Manager also allows you to delete existing normalized hosts. In the same drop down menu that "Edit Host" appears, you will also see "Delete Host".

Clicking on it will prompt you with a message detailing the consequences of deleting a host.

You may confirm the delete by clicking the "Delete" button. Clicking Cancel will bring you back to the Hosts Table without deleting the host. Note that only the normalized host is deleted when clicking Delete. No host information acquired from results during an analysis will be lost.

When creating or editing a host, you may end up introducing values for field-types that Software Risk Manager considers "identifying". Identifying fields for Hosts are the FQDN, Hostname, NetBIOS Name, IP Address, and MAC Address fields. If you introduce a value for an "identifying" field-type and it already exists on a host in the current Host Scope, clicking on "OK" will cause the editor to expand to include two new non-interactive tables.

The first new table will show you the host you tried to add, and the second new table will show you all hosts that already have some of the values for "identifying" field-types the host you tried to add has. Clicking Merge will cause the host you tried to add to be joined together with the other hosts that shared values for "identifying" field-types with that host. Clicking Cancel will bring you back to the editor and will not join the host with any other hosts. Note that you will be unable to edit the host you're trying to add until you either click Merge or Cancel.

Software Risk Manager also allows you to filter the hosts that appear in the Hosts Table. Above the table, you should see a text field.

This is the "Generic" filter. Any value provided here will be used to display only hosts for which at least one field value for any of the field-types satisfies the filter defined by the provided value.

Clicking advanced, which is next to the "Generic" Filter, will bring up the Advanced Filters sidebar.

These filters are specific to a host field-type, and providing a value for any of these will display only hosts in the table for which the specified value exists in the specified column for that host. Note that each filter available will only filter by one value, so attempting to filter by multiple values for a particular field-type (or in the "Generic" filter) won't work.