This Getting Started guide is designed to help you navigate the main WhiteSource Mend GUI dashboard and menu options, in order to get up and running quickly with WhiteSourceMend.
The Web-based GUI provides you with numerous menu options and panels to view and analyze the scans of your open-source software in the organization's products and projects. Administrators can customize the system settings, manage the additional users' permissions, and configure the integration with third-party components.
The following table provides an overview of the options that you can access from the menu bar at the top of the WhiteSource Mend Home page.
Main Menu Item | Sub Menu Item | Description | For details, see …… | See also….. |
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Home | Main page that opens after you log in. Provides immediate visibility of your organization’s open source inventory (open source files), together with potential security vulnerabilities, license compliance, and easy to understand dashboards. | Understanding the WhiteSource Mend Home Page | Understanding Projects, Products, and Organizations | |
Dashboards | ||||
Library Search | Search for libraries in an organization in order to view their details. | |||
Requests | The Requests Dashboard features a variety of options that provide a complete view of the status of requests in your organization. | |||
Licenses | The Licenses Dashboard provides a complete view of the status of licenses in your organization. | |||
Security Trends | The Security Trends Dashboard provides a view of the organizational security posture over time, based on:
NOTE: This dashboard is intended mainly for the organization's administrators, security officers, and application R&D managers. | |||
Containers | The Containers dashboard provides a clear view of the Kubernetes resources along with the ability to filter, sort, and view the vulnerabilities per pod in a cluster. | WhiteSource Mend for Containers | ||
Set Organizational Attribute Values | Apply attribute values to libraries in an organization. | |||
Products | From the Products dropdown menu, you can view a dashboard detailing a product’s open-source status (alerts, vulnerability & license analysis, associated libraries, pending tasks, and so on). | |||
View All | View all the products in an organization and when they were created. You can select a product to view a dashboard showing its open-source status. | |||
Admin Products | View a list of projects associated with the products in the organization. You can select a product to view a dashboard showing its open-source status. | |||
+ New Product | Create a new product. | |||
Search Product | Search for a specific product. | |||
Last Used Products | View the last-used products for quick access to view a dashboard detailing the product’s open source status | |||
Projects | From the Projects dropdown menu, you can view a dashboard detailing a project’s open-source status (alerts, vulnerability & license analysis, associated libraries, pending tasks, and so on). | |||
View All | View all the projects in an organization and when they were created. You can select a project to view its open source status. | |||
Search Project | Search for a specific project. | |||
Last Used Projects | View the last-used projects for quick access to view a dashboard detailing the project’s open source status. | |||
Policies | From the Policies menu, you can manage and enforce policy rules in an organization. You can create workflows to enforce your company rules for security and compliance. | |||
Alerts | From the Alerts menu, you can manage alerts which notify users about licensing and vulnerability open-source issues. | Licensing and Compliance Alerts | ||
Reports | From the Reports menu, you can generate reports that provide information on security vulnerabilities and alerts, detailed compliance information, library licenses information and implications, various risk factors, and more. | Working with WhiteSource Mend Reports | ||
Integrate | From the Integrate menu, you can do the following:
| Matching Libraries by Filename | ||
Admin | From the Admin menu, you can configure:
| Managing Library WhiteList Rules Configuring Notifications Settings Using Version in Product or Project Names Issue Tracker Integration (Legacy) WhiteSource Mend SAML 2.0 Integration Issue Tracker Integration Generic Platform and Plugins
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