This Getting Started guide is designed to help you navigate the main Mend GUI dashboard and menu options, in order to get up and running quickly with Mend.
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 Mend Home page.
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Sub Menu Item
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Description
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Home
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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.
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Understanding the Mend Home Page
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Understanding Projects, Products, and Organizations
Understanding and Managing Vulnerabilities
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Dashboards
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Library Search
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Search for libraries in an organization in order to view their details.
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Requests
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The Requests Dashboard features a variety of options that provide a complete view of the status of requests in your organization.
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Licenses
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The Licenses Dashboard provides a complete view of the status of licenses in your organization.
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License Resolution Research Definitions
Understanding Risk Score Attribution and License Analysis
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Security Trends
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The Security Trends Dashboard provides a view of the organizational security posture over time, based on:
Number of open security vulnerabilities
Average remediation and handling time of security vulnerabilities
Effect of newly published vulnerabilities
NOTE: This dashboard is intended mainly for the organization's administrators, security officers, and application R&D managers.
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Containers
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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.
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Set Organizational Attribute Values
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Apply attribute values to libraries in an organization.
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Products
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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).
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Understanding Projects, Products, and Organizations
Understanding the Library Details Page
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View All
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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.
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Admin Products
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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.
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+ New Product
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Create a new product.
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Search Product
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Search for a specific product.
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Last Used Products
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View the last-used products for quick access to view a dashboard detailing the product’s open source status
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Projects
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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).
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Understanding Projects, Products, and Organizations
Understanding the Library Details Page
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View All
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View all the projects in an organization and when they were created. You can select a project to view its open source status.
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Search Project
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Search for a specific project.
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Last Used Projects
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View the last-used projects for quick access to view a dashboard detailing the project’s open source status.
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Policies
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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.
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Alerts
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From the Alerts menu, you can manage alerts which notify users about licensing and vulnerability open-source issues.
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Licensing and Compliance Alerts
Security Alerts: View by Vulnerability
Security Alerts: View by Library
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Reports
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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.
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Working with Administrator Reports
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Integrate
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From the Integrate menu, you can do the following:
View important information about your organization & its environment, including the organization’s unique API key.
Find the product token for each product in the organization which uniquely identifies it.
Find the project token for each project in the organization which uniquely identifies it.
Configure Advanced Settings for your organization, such as, configuring user level access control, how to store and manage unmatched source files in Mend, and more.
View and configure all the integrations that are supported by the Unified Agent.
Generate an activation key for an Azure DevOps Server (TFS) Integration.
View and configure Mend developer integrations.
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Azure DevOps Server (TFS) Integration
Matching Libraries by Filename
Managing Unmatched Source Files
User Level Access Control in Integrations and APIs
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Admin
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From the Admin menu, you can configure:
Settings for Alerts, In-House Libraries, Library Whitelists, Custom Attributes, Notifications, Security, Maven Dependency Resolutions
General system settings for Users, Groups, Role Assignments, view a history of User Logins, and more.
Settings for Mend integrations:
Advise for Chrome Management
Upload Update Request
SAML Integration
Issue Tracker Settings
GitHub WebHooks integration
Integration Workflow Rules
Managing Library WhiteList Rules
Configuring Notifications Settings
Using Version in Product or Project Names
Issue Tracker Integration (Legacy)
Issue Tracker Integration Generic Platform and Plugins
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page is available at: https://docs.mend.io/bundle/sca_user_guide/page/web-based_application_menus.html