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Vantage
SaaS security and visibility across your OT, IoT, and IT networks.
Administrator Guide
Information about the Administration section of Vantage, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
Administration
Organization Settings
Credentials Manager
Use the Credentials Manager to define credentials that authorize access to hosts through Smart Polling or Arc. This enables secure data collection and encrypted transmission decryption. You can add, customize, and manage credentials for various device types.
Add a credential
Add credentials to authorize access to assets through Smart Polling or Arc. Select an identity, configure options, and confirm to store the new credential. This allows secure, role-based access management for connected devices.

Vantage
SaaS security and visibility across your OT, IoT, and IT networks.
- Introduction
  An overview of Vantage.
- Administrator Guide
  Information about the Administration section of Vantage, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
  - Administration
    - Administration page
      The administration page lets a user with administrator privileges configure settings and do other tasks.
    - System
    - Teams
    - Organization Settings
      - Updates
        The Updates page gives you access to configuration tabs for update policies and to schedule updates.
      - Features
        The Features page lets you configure Vantage to show, or hide, experimental and preview features for the selected organization.
      - Sensors Synchronization Settings
        The Settings Synchronization Settings (Sync) page shows the settings that this sensor inherits from its organization.
      - Tags
        The Tags page lets you assign tags to assets for access management purposes. This lets you constrain role assignments into a specific tag.
      - Zone Configurations
        The Zone Configurations page shows all the zone configurations in your organization, and lets you add new ones.
      - Imports
        The Imports page is organized into four tabs where you can view the history of completed imports and start new ones: Assets, Arc, Zone Configurations, and N2OS Content Packs.
      - Asset Rules
        The Asset Rules page shows all the asset rules in your organization, and lets you add new ones.
      - Security Control Panel
        The Security Control Panel allows administrators to configure security settings across the organization.
      - Custom Fields
        The Custom Fields page lets you enrich the schema of assets and nodes, and propagate the information to every sensor.
      - Credentials Manager
        Use the Credentials Manager to define credentials that authorize access to hosts through Smart Polling or Arc. This enables secure data collection and encrypted transmission decryption. You can add, customize, and manage credentials for various device types.
        Add a credential
        Add credentials to authorize access to assets through Smart Polling or Arc. Select an identity, configure options, and confirm to store the new credential. This allows secure, role-based access management for connected devices.
      - Alert Close Options
        The Alert Close Options page lets you define custom explanations for closing an alert.
      - Alert Playbooks
        The Alert Playbooks page lets you define templates to follow to manage alerts. An alert playbook defines custom content that instructs alert operators, and other users, how to manage various types of alerts. Playbooks are associated with alerts that match criteria specified in an alert rule. When a matching alert is raised, the playbook's content is included on the new alert's Details page. You and your team can update this content to record progress and take notes particular to this alert.
      - Alert Rules
        The Alert Rules page shows all the alert rules that you have defined, and lets you add new ones.
      - Contents Management
        Use the Contents Management page to view, create, and manage detection content across the organization. Tabs organize content types such as packet rules, Yara rules, and Sigma rules. This interface helps streamline the application of threat detection logic in Vantage.
      - Traffic Replays
        The Traffic Relays page lets you load demonstration data into your environment so that you can test various features and explore Vantage. Nozomi Networks provides several traffic replays, which demonstrate different scenarios, such as an OT-focused Power Station attack.
      - CLI
        The CLI page lets you select sensors and use the text field to enter a command to execute. Vantage shows the output of sensors in the web UI.
      - Migration tasks
        The Migration tasks page lets you update your Vantage instance and downstream sensors to adapt to changes in new versions of N2OS.
      - Audit Logs
        The Audit Logs page shows detailed operational information about your sensors and the activities that they monitor.
      - Backup Schedules
        The Backup Schedules page lets you manage, view, add, edit, and delete backup schedules.
      - Upload Traces
        The Upload Traces page lets you upload a trace, or packet capture (pcap) file, that is related to the active organization.
      - Arc dependencies
        The Arc dependencies page shows the dependencies used by the Arc sensors in your organization, and lets you apply actions to multiple sensors at once.
  - SAML integration
- User Guide
  Information about the main features of Vantage and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).

Add a credential

Add credentials to authorize access to assets through Smart Polling or Arc. Select an identity, configure options, and confirm to store the new credential. This allows secure, role-based access management for connected devices.

Procedure

In the top navigation bar, select
The administration page opens.
In the Organization settings section, select Credentials Manager.
The Credentials Manager page opens.
Select Add.
The Create Credentials page shows.
From the Identity dropdown, select the applicable identity.
The identity that you choose will affect the configuration options that show.
Configure the credential as necessary.
Select Confirm.

Results

The credential has been added.