Manually Collecting Server Fingerprints

Scenarios

Server fingerprints can be collected automatically or manually. This section describes how to manually collect them. For details about automatic collection, see Server Fingerprint Overview.

To check the latest server fingerprints in real time, you can manually collect them.

• For details about how to manually collect information about the web applications, web services, web frameworks, websites, middleware, kernel modules, or databases on a single server, see Manually Collecting the Latest Asset Fingerprints of a Single Server.
• For details about how to manually collect the fingerprints of all servers, see Manually Collecting the Latest Asset Fingerprints of All Servers.

Manually Collecting the Latest Asset Fingerprints of a Single Server

1. Log in to the HSS console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region or project.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Asset Management > Servers & Quota. Click the Servers tab.
4. (Optional) If you have enabled the enterprise project function, select an enterprise project from the Enterprise Project drop-down list in the upper part of the page to view its data.
5. Click the name of the target server. On the server details page that is displayed, choose Asset Fingerprints > Servers.
6. Click a fingerprint in the fingerprint list, and click Discover Assets on the upper area of the list on the right.

   Currently, only the information about web applications, web services, web frameworks, websites, middleware, kernel modules, and databases can be manually collected and updated in real time. Information about other types is automatically collected at regular intervals.

   Figure 1 Collecting data now
   

7. After the automatic execution is complete, the last scan time is updated and the latest server asset information is displayed.

Manually Collecting the Latest Asset Fingerprints of All Servers

1. Log in to the HSS console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region or project.
3. Choose Asset Management > Server Fingerprints.

4. In the upper right corner of the page, click Update Asset Fingerprints.
5. Select the server update scope and click OK.
   Figure 2 Updating asset fingerprints
   

6. After the Updating Asset Fingerprints status disappears from the button in the upper right corner of the page, you can view the latest asset fingerprints.

References

After the server fingerprints are collected, you can view the latest asset fingerprint data. For details, see Viewing Server Fingerprints.