Overview

This topic describes how to manage (add, remove, edit and view) In-House rules. In-House refers to libraries that were developed by your own company. In-House rules are applied by using glob patterns for matching libraries in your inventory. 

These libraries are part of your inventory, but you do not want to view them in any report or license analysis, or initiate an approval process for them.

IMPORTANT

Customers with installations of Vulnerability-based Alerting can view In-House libraries when filtering alerts by Resolved Alerts.

Libraries can be marked as In-House according to the following ways:

Please Note: The above actions can only be performed by an Organization Administrator. In order for Product Administrators to perform any of the above actions, the Organization Administrator must enable the "Allow product administrators to mark libraries as in-house" checkbox which is available in the Admin > Assignments page.

Accessing the In-House Rules Settings

To manage In-House rules, you must access the In-House Settings screen. Do as follows:

  1. From the menubar, select Admin. The Organization Administration screen is displayed.

  2. In the Settings area, select In-House. The In-House Settings screen is displayed (partial view displayed here).

The screen contains these areas:

Adding an In-House Rule

Adding a rule immediately affects all existing matched libraries in your inventory and all future tickets, causing them to be approved automatically.

Add a rule via the following ways:

To add a new In-House rule, do as follows:

  1. Above the In-House Rules table, click Add Rule. The Add In-House Rule dialog box is displayed.

  2. Select either By Name or By Library Coordinates (see above explanation).

  3. Click OK.

  4. Click Save and Apply.

Removing an In-House Rule

Removing an In-House rule will cause all matching libraries to "reappear" in all reports and analyses.

To remove a rule, do as follows:

  1. In the In-House Rules table, select the rule that you want to remove, and click Remove Selected.

  2. Click Save and Apply.

Marking a Library as In-House

To mark a library as In-House, do as follows:

  1. Go to the Project and Product pages.

  2. In the Libraries panel, select one or multiple libraries.

  3. At the top of the panel, click Actions > Mark as In-House. The Comments for In-House Library dialog box is displayed.

  4. Note the following if selected:

  5. In Would you like to add comments?, add a comment for this action.

  6. Click Yes. After marked as in-house, the selected libraries will immediately "disappear" from your dashboards and reports.

Note: Marking libraries manually is enabled only for the organization and/or product admin.

Adding/Editing Comments to In-House Libraries

To add/edit a comment for libraries, do as follows:

  1. In the Manual In-House Libraries table, select one or more libraries to which you want to add/edit a comment.

  2. From the top of the table, select Actions > Add/Edit Comment. The Comments for In-House Library dialog box is displayed.

  3. Add a new comment or edit an existing one. If you are editing a comment, the newly entered comment will replace the previously entered comment(s) that were entered.  

Unmarking a Library as In-House

To unmark manual In-House libraries, do as follows:

  1. From the menubar, select Admin. The Organization Administration screen is displayed.

  2. In the Settings area, select In-House. The In-House Settings screen is displayed.

  3. Select the library to unmark (checkbox on the left) and from the Actions menu, select Unmark Selected. The Comments for In-House Library dialog box is displayed.

  4. Optionally, add a comment for this action. If you do, click Yes. If not, click No.

Libraries unmarked will no longer be considered in-house and will "reappear" in all reports and analyses.

Viewing Tooltip Comments

Each manual In-House library has one of the following icons next the library name:

 - Library does not include a comment 

 - Library includes a comment

Hovering over a library with a comment displays the comment on the tool-tip, for example: