Summary Flexera Software Vulnerability Manager components have built-in security mechanisms for the validation of the target server they connect and submit scan data to. This 'CRL check' as it's called, has the sole purpose to confirm that the data ...
Summary :This article helps you to create your own code signing certificate with an internal PKI structure which you can use for signing the SVM 3rd party packages. Solution:Please look at the following Flexera Level 400 using your own certific...
Symptoms:Internal Error 500 after the publishing of the SVM 3rd party packages. The package gets published but unable to edit the published packages. Diagnosis: The following issues appear when the sps_packages table is missing/not complete or th...
Summary The SVM VA server will generate a self-signed SSL certificate when you choose to use SSL.These instructions will explain how to swap it for your certificate and key pair. Synopsis Once you've run through the SVM Virtual Appliance (VA) setup...
Question: You have published Software Vulnerability Manager patches to System Center Configuration Manager and the patches had installed nicely on corporate systems. The System Center server is showing the packages' installation statistics, but the ...
Summary This article provides extended overview of the steps required to perform a swap of your WSUS Self-Signing certificate, or your CA-private code-signing certificate at WSUS, when the old one has expired and you need a new one. Instructions 1...
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 During the installation of the SVM Distribution Daemon (Software Vulnerability Management a.k.a. SVM Next), you cannot pass the configuration of a service account. The installation wizard results in error 1920 yielding an error related to ins...
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...
