Understanding Data Forwarding and Receiving - PAS Integrity Software Suite - 7.3 - Administration & Configuration - Intergraph

Integrity Administration Guide

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Companies have different requirements at various levels within their organizational structure and operational demands:

  • While those at the site level are involved in day-to-day operations and change management of their local systems, the centralized engineering group might want to view consolidated information from multiple sites.

  • Some groups might want to centrally maintain a complete operational inventory or check what sites have systems that could be susceptible to a particular vulnerability. Operationally, Cyber Integrity enables your ability to comprehend and resolve vulnerabilities at both the enterprise and the site levels.

  • The central team might want to know which sites have specific control systems when renewing maintenance contracts.

The process of data forwarding securely exports and transports normalized data from each of the source (affiliate/site) Integrity installations to one or more destination (enterprise) installations. The destination installations can then receive and import the data.

Use data forwarding and receiving to consolidate various types of information from across your Integrity installation. Integrity can forward the following types of information:

  • Vulnerability information as one or more CFF files

  • Inventory information as CFF and CSV files

  • Normalization settings as CFF files

  • System settings (rare)

Data forwarding enables large corporations to consolidate data from site-level installations of Integrity into one or more enterprise-level installations. Integrity provides two scenarios to implement data forwarding and receiving:

Inventory and Vulnerability Management data (optimized method): data can be processed at the site or enterprise level and forwarded; however, wherever the processing takes place, all of the source objects must be present (where you imported the data).

Inventory data only: data can be exported from either the site or enterprise level and forwarded to the enterprise level for viewing and further processing.

This functionality ensures these deployment scenarios are more easily implemented in a reliable manner, and that no special scripts or customization are required.