Summary: The current SVM on-premise version doesn't support the PHP 7.3, since PHP 7.2 has already been EOL in November 2020. This article will help our SVM on-premise customer to upgrade the PHP 7.2 version to PHP 7.3.Steps : Prerequisite: you ne...
Description: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in SolarWinds Orion Platform and SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, disclose sensitive information, ma...
Summary This article will help you upgrade from a previous version of Software Vulnerability Manager On-Premises Edition running at RHEL to the latest version. Steps: Download the latest rpm from the RPM download portal and copy to your SVM RHEL 7 ...
Summary This KB article help SVM on-premise customers with how they can recover the SVM on-premise database from backup. Cause The SVM database got corrupt due to any of the reasons below. Can't log in to the SVM console via IE with the connection...
Vendor Patch Module License File Generation We need the below information from the customer to generate the Vendor Patch Module license file. Login to your SVM on-premise via command line Run the following command to open the SVM on-premise confi...
Question Where does the SVM (console and SC plugin) store its log files? Answer The log file is named as csi_pluginlog.txt and SC plugin log file is named as secunia_sc2012_plugin.log located under Documents folder. Additional Information The package...
Backup SVM-On-premise Database To backup your SVM-On-premise Database: mysqldump -u [user] -p [database_name] > [filename].sql Replace [user] with your username and password (if needed).The [database_name] is the path and filename of the database...
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...
The CSV exports for advisory smart groups will translate some of the data columns into a numeric value rather than the terms seen in the SVM console. Below is a list of translations between numeric values seen in a CSV export and what can be seen i...
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...
Oracle has decided to implement their licensing restrictions on all their Java packages and it is now hiding Oracle Java JRE/JDK downloads behind their customer login page. As a result, Flexera is no longer able to provide Out-of-the-box pre-configur...
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 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...
Summary Can SVM connect to multiple WSUS/SCCM Servers? Yes, you can! Discussion The connection to the WSUS, or the SUP of an actively deployed SCCM server, is user-dependent. This means that the Software Vulnerability Manager will allow multiple user...
Summary This article provides a brief introduction to the official CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System). Synopsis CVSS is an industry-wide method used to objectively measure and communicate the severity of a security vulnerability. There are s...
Summary This article helps you decide how to handle the deployment of the SVM Agent through VDI imaging. Should I install SVM Agent on pre-build VDI Image before deploying it to hosts, or should it be installed after the image was successfully deplo...
Summary A full guide on how to create a GPO to distribute WSUS certificate and Windows update settings. Synopsis This short guide describes how to create a Group Policy Object (GPO) for CSI-WSUS by using the Group Policy Management console. Once the ...
