Accessing Alerts from the Inventory View

This procedure describes how to access the security vulnerability alerts for a specific inventory item from the Code Insight Inventory view.

To view security vulnerability alerts from the Inventory view, do the following:

1.

Open the Inventory view. (For instructions, see Opening the Inventory View.)

2.

(Optional) To filter the view to show only inventory items that have alerts, do the following:

a.

Click the Advanced Search button at the top of the view.

b.

From the Advanced Search dialog, select Inventory with Open Alerts (located in the Inventory Notifications section), and click Apply.

The Inventory view is displayed, listing all inventory items with open and closed alerts. (The Alerts column shows an icon for each item.)

3.

(Optional) To filter the view to a specific project, click Select Project to select a specific project.

4.

To view the open and closed alerts for a given inventory item associated with a given project, locate the item, and click the icon in the Alerts column.

The Alerts dialog is displayed, listing the open and closed alerts for the inventory item.