This article provides the steps required to swap your WSUS self-signed certificate or your CA-private code-signed certificate in WSUS when the old certificate has expired. Before you start Make sure Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration ...
Question This article provides answers to the following questions related to SVM Agent thread scheduling: What kind of thread priority does the agent have and how would it play out if the host CPU is busy? Will the default thread priority interfere...
Good news, everyone! The Mozilla Firefox packages are now far more amazing than ever before! It all started with the policies.json file, that Mozilla appears to be pushing on people now. It is a JSON file, which contains a bunch of settings for Fire...
Summary The Flexera Software Package System that comes as a native part of the Software Vulnerability Manager allows customization of patches in specifically selected by the SVM administrator languages. When you wish to deploy a package in a diffe...
Question: Users of the Software Vulnerability Manager have been asking how to create a CSV report of all scanned software products on the network, including their installation paths, vendor, criticality, etc. This article teaches you how to do this ...
Question How do you create reporting only on "Insecure" or "End-Of-Life" statuses in Software Vulnerability Manager? How could you utilize your custom filters across all reporting configurations for tracking only the security statuses you are intere...
Many times, the best way to debug a technical problem with the Software Vulnerability Manager Agent scanners is to create a log file that shows what the Agent does and where it fails to submit the scans. The log file is the fastest way to diagnose a...
Question: What are the correct requirements to integrate SVM to WSUS for publishing third-party patches? Answer: This section guides you through the connection properties and requirements of the connection and overall integration of the Software V...
Synopsis An Update Package in Software Vulnerability Manager is a security and/or critical update patch that is built based upon a scan result for a product that was identified as vulnerable by the software. In this KB article, we provide more concre...
Summary This article explains how SVM users can find the host IP's from the database console of the Software Vulnerability Manager solution by Flexera. Workaround Login to your SVM account and navigate to Reporting > Database Access > Database conso...
Summary Disabling scanning of certain locations may help you maintain a cleaner database avoiding scanning of locations where you know and you intend to keep old software program versions and executable files that are known to be risky, but the organ...
Summary This article explains the available options to configure scanning against SQL database maintained by the SCCM server and how to limit the amount of data being fetched by SVM from the server Synopsis New Software Vulnerability Management users...
Summary Sometime you might encounter a failing scan of a particular host which you might need to track back in time to determine if the failures are sporadic, or permanent indicating a technical problem at this host. This article provides a quick tip...
Summary This article teaches you to create and configure Custom SVM Agent Uninstall package, that can be deployed to domain clients using WSUS/SCCM that will uninstall SVM Local Agent installed on them. Discussion After you log into your Software Vu...
Summary This quick tutorial teaches you to issue a log file with Single Host Agent for Red Hat 6/7 in the terminal. Debugging can provide great troubleshooting capabilities when it comes to solving a question or a task. SVM2018 provides you with a ...
Summary This article explains how data from the Software Vulnerability Manager solution can be exported in a CSV file for further processing and even more customized reporting options such as feeding it into PowerBI or another similar tool. As you ca...
Summary The Software Vulnerability Manager allows the creation of regular unprivileged sub-user accounts which can be allowed to see only selected amount of hosts based on the available restrictive options available in the account configuration. Syn...
Symptoms WSUS / System Centre states Disconnected every time when logging in to check if there are any new updates available. Clicking through the steps to connect works. Cause The user has not signed into the Internet Explorer using the "Run As Admi...
Summary Information regarding editing an uninstall package in the Flexera Software Package System. Synopsis The script below is generated in instances where we do not have a built-in uninstaller available for the product in question. The example prov...
Summary This article shows how to configure quickly the password recovery settings for your Software Vulnerability Manager account. Unless it is a test sub-account, Flexera recommends this configuration to be done as early as possible in the process ...
