Configuring Asset

Install and configure Configure Tanium Endpoint Configuration

Manage solution configurations with Tanium Endpoint Configuration

Tanium Endpoint Configuration delivers configuration information and required tools for Tanium Solutions to endpoints. Endpoint Configuration consolidates the configuration actions that traditionally accompany additional Tanium functionality and eliminates the potential for timing errors that occur between when a solution configuration is made and the time that configuration reaches an endpoint. Managing configuration in this way greatly reduces the time to install, configure, and use Tanium functionality, and improves the flexibility to target specific configurations to groups of endpoints.

For solutions to Solutions cannot perform configuration changes or tool deployment through Endpoint Configuration on endpoints with action locks turned on, you must enable the Manifest Package Ignore Action Lock and Deploy Client Configuration and Support Package Ignore Action Lock settings. To access these settings, from the Endpoint Configuration Overview page, click Settings and select Global. on. As a best practice, do not turn on action locks. For more information about action locks, see Tanium Console User Guide: Managing action locks.

For more information about Endpoint Configuration, see Tanium Endpoint Configuration User Guide.

Configure Asset

(Optional) Configure the Asset action group

The action group determines on which endpoints the following Asset activities can be performed:

• Asset collection of software inventory and usage data
• Asset tool distribution
• Asset file evidence collection for Flexera
• Asset collection of Microsoft Exchange information

Importing the Asset module automatically creates an action group to target specific endpoints. If you did not use automatic configuration or you enabled restricted targeting when you imported Asset, the action group targets No Computers.

If restricted targeting was disabled when you imported Asset, the computer group target for the Tanium Asset action group targets All Computers, and configuring the Asset action group is optional.

Select the computer groups to include in the Asset action group.

Clear the selection for No Computers and make Make sure that all operating systems that are supported by Asset are included in the Asset action group.

Asset inventory information is collected only for endpoints that are included in the Asset action group.

1. From the Main menu, go to Administration > Actions > Action Groups.
2. Click Tanium Asset.
3. Select the computer groups that you want to include in the action group and click Save.
   If you select multiple computer groups, choose an operator (AND or OR) to combine the groups.

For more information about Flexera integration, see Flexera FlexNet Manager Suite: 2019 R1 or earlier.

Set up Asset users

You can use the following set of predefined user roles to set up Asset users.

To review specific permissions for each role, see User role requirements.

For more information about assigning user roles, see Tanium Core Platform User Guide: Manage role assignments for a user.

Asset Administrator

Assign the Asset Administrator role to users who manage all configuration and deployment of Asset functionality to endpoints.
This role can perform the following tasks:

• Configure all Asset service settings
• Manage the Tanium source
• View, create, edit, and delete all reports and views
• Access the Software Inventory & Usage pages

Asset Operator

Assign the Asset Operator role to users who manage most configuration and deployment of Asset functionality to endpoints.
This role can perform the following tasks:

• Configure some Asset settings, including data retention, report timeout, and permissions
• View, create, edit, and delete all reports and views
• Access the Software Inventory & Usage pages

Asset User

Assign the Asset User role to users who manage reports and views.
This role can view, create, edit, and delete owned reports and views.

Asset Report Reader

Assign the Asset Report Reader role to users who view reports and views.

Asset API User

Assign the Asset API User role to a user who accesses the Asset API using API Gateway.

Asset Limited Report Reader

Assign the Asset Limited Report Reader role to a user who views only public reports.

Asset Endpoint Configuration Approver

Assign the Asset Endpoint Configuration Approver role to a user who approves or rejects Asset configuration items in Tanium Endpoint Configuration.
This role can approve, reject, or dismiss changes that target endpoints where Asset is installed.

Do not assign the Asset Service Account and Asset Service Account - All Content Sets roles to users. These roles are used for internal purposes only.

Set user permissions on computers

In addition to the Asset user roles that control access to Asset reports and settings as a whole, you can define more detailed permissions on computers that are based on individual attribute values. For example, you can create permissions that assign a user group permission to access information about only Windows or only macOS operating system assets. If a user belongs to multiple user groups, the permissions for all the user groups are combined with an AND operator.

Before you begin, you must have a user group to which you want to assign the Asset permissions. See Tanium Core Platform User Guide: Managing user groups. For the users in this user group to access Asset, they also must have an Asset user role assigned. See User role requirements.

1. From the Asset Overview page, click Settings , and then click the Permissions tab.
2. Click Create Permission.
3. In the User Groups list, select the user group to which you want to assign Asset permissions.
4. Add a condition. This list of attributes is from the ci_item table of the Asset database.
   For example, to assign the selected user group permission to view only Windows assets, set the values to OS Platform contains Windows.
5. Click Apply to create each condition.
6. Click Create.