Setting Policies to Publish Inventory Automatically

Code Insight provides the ability to automatically publish inventory without the need for an analyst to be involved. This feature supports a fully automated end-to-end process where there is no human analyst involvement. (For example, the auto-publish feature works in conjunction with workflow policies that automatically review inventory items as they are published, as described in Managing Policy Profiles.) If there is a human analyst involved, the auto-publish feature can be turned off, allowing the analyst to publish the inventory manually after analysis.

When the auto-publish feature is enabled, additional options are made available to do the following:

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Set the minimum inventory confidence level for publishing inventory.

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Determine whether to automatically mark files associated with an auto-published inventory as “reviewed”.

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Determine whether to publish inventories with undetermined licenses (that is, their selected License value is I don’t know).

To set the auto-publish feature, do the following:

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As the Project Administrator, navigate to the Summary tab (see Opening the Project Summary Tab).

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From the Manage Project menu, select Edit Project. The Edit Project window opens.

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Select the Scan Settings tab.

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Enable or disable Automatically publish system-created inventory items. When you enable this option, additional auto-publish options are made available for configuration. See Edit Project: Scan Settings Tab for a description these options.

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When you have set the auto-publish feature, click Save. The Summary tab is opened.