Configuring Discover

If you did not install Discover with the Apply All Tanium recommended configurations option, you must enable and configure certain features.

(Tanium Core Platform 7.4.5 or later only) You can set the Discover action group to target the No Computers filter group by enabling restricted targeting before adding Discover to your Tanium licenseimporting Discover. This option enables you to control tools deployment through scheduled actions that are created during the import and that target the Tanium Discover action group. For example, you might want to test tools on a subset of endpoints before deploying the tools to all endpoints. In this case, you can manually deploy the tools to an action group that you configured to target only the subset. To configure an action group, see Tanium Console User Guide: Managing action groups. To enable or disable restricted targeting, see Tanium Console User Guide: Dependencies, default settings, and tools deployment.

When you import Discover with the Tanium Recommended Installation workflow, the following default settings are configured:

The following default setting is configured:

Setting	Default value
Action group	Restricted targeting disabled (default): All Computers computer group Restricted targeting enabled: No Computers computer group
Level 2 ping distributed profile	This profile is created and deployed to all Tanium Clients. For more information about this type of profile, see Level 2 (ping).

Prepare endpoints

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.

Endpoint Configuration is installed as a part of Tanium Client Management. For more information, see the Tanium Client Management User Guide: Installing Client Management.

Optionally, you can use Endpoint Configuration to require approval of configuration changes. When configuration approvals are enabled, Endpoint Configuration does not deploy a configuration change to endpoints until a user with approval permission approves the change. For information about the roles and permissions that are required to approve configuration changes for Discover, see User role requirements. For more information about enabling and using configuration approvals in Endpoint Configuration, see Tanium Endpoint Configuration User Guide: Managing approvals.

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 Discover

Configure import frequency

(Optional) Configure the import frequency. This setting determines how often the results from running discovery methods are imported to the Interfaces pages.

From the Discover Overview page, click Settings and go to the Global Settings tab. Edit the Import Frequency setting.

Leave the Import Frequency setting at the default value (every 30 minutes).

Set up Discover users

You can use the following set of predefined user roles to set up Discover users. To review specific permissions for each role, see User role requirements.

On installation, Discover creates a Discover user to automatically manage the Discover service account. Do not edit or delete the Discover user.

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

Discover Administrator

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

Configure Discover settings
Create, edit, and delete profiles
View managed and unmanaged interfaces; manually import interfaces; export interface data
Create and apply labels to interfaces; remove labels from interfaces
Define and import locations; apply corresponding location permissions to user groups
Manipulate Discover data in Trends

Discover Operator

Assign the Discover Operator role to users who manage most of the configuration and deployment of Discover functionality to endpoints, usually in Tanium Cloud environments.
This role can perform the following tasks:

Create, edit, and delete profiles
View managed and unmanaged interfaces; manually import interfaces; export interface data
Create and apply labels to interfaces; remove labels from interfaces
Define and import locations; apply corresponding location permissions to user groups
Manipulate Discover data in Trends

Discover User

Assign the Discover User role to users who analyze and organize results of Discover scans.
This role can perform the following tasks:

View managed and unmanaged interfaces; manually import interfaces; export interface data
Create and apply labels to interfaces; remove labels from interfaces (only if location permissions are not defined)

Discover Read Only User

Assign the Discover Read Only User role to users who analyze Discover scan results.
This role can perform the following tasks:

View managed and unmanaged interfaces
View labels applied to interfaces

Discover Endpoint Configuration Approver

Assign the Discover Endpoint Configuration Approver role to a user who approves or rejects Discover configuration items in Tanium Endpoint Configuration.
This role can perform the following tasks:

Approve, reject, or dismiss changes that target endpoints where Discover is installed
View Discover profiles

Do not assign the Discover Service Account role to users. This role is for internal purposes only.