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User Guide
Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
Process
Process
Process is a set of repeatable functions that a business does to deliver a core value.
Settings
The Settings page lets you configure which strategy to use to extract variables inside the process that are being communicated over different protocols.

Guardian
- Introduction
  An overview of Guardian.
- Installation Guide
  Information and resources on how to install Guardian, and the different options and settings that are available.
- Administrator Guide
  Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
- User Guide
  Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
  - Sensors
  - Alerts
  - Assets
  - Queries
  - Smart Polling
  - Arc
  - Network
  - Process
    - Process
      Process is a set of repeatable functions that a business does to deliver a core value.
      - List
        The List page shows detailed information about variables in your environment.
      - Protocol connections
        The Protocol connections page lets you configure the additional parameters necessary to extract information contained inside certain protocols.
      - Settings
        The Settings page lets you configure which strategy to use to extract variables inside the process that are being communicated over different protocols.
      - Configure a variable
        The List page lets you navigate to related nodes, links, vulnerabilities, or sessions.
      - View the details of a variable
        The List page lets you view the details of a variable.
      - Favorite a variable
        The List page lets you add a variable to the favorite variables.
      - Navigate from a variable
        The List page lets you navigate to related nodes, links, vulnerabilities, or sessions.
  - Reports
  - Assertions
  - Time machine
  - Vulnerabilities
  - Administration
  - Personal settings
- Maintenance Guide
  Information about the maintenance tasks of Guardian, to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
- Print format documentation
  A list of all the print-format documentation that is available for Guardian.

Settings

The Settings page lets you configure which strategy to use to extract variables inside the process that are being communicated over different protocols.

Figure 1. Process variable extraction tuning

Disabled

This checkbox lets you disable global variables extraction.

Enabled

This checkbox lets you enable global variables extraction.

Advanced

This checkbox lets you try to apply heuristic techniques to some protocols to extract more variables. Protocol specific settings prevail.

Limit the extraction to the selected zones

This dropdown lets you Limit the extraction to the selected zones.