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Vantage
SaaS security and visibility across your OT, IoT, and IT networks.
User Guide
Information about the main features of Vantage and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
Smart Polling
Smart Polling provides a centralized interface for creating, managing, and monitoring polling plans within your organization. It helps you streamline data collection and control monitoring activities from one location.
Overview
Learn how Smart Polling plans are displayed, managed, and executed in the Vantage platform. This includes understanding plan statuses, how to add or search for plans, and how to interpret result data. Icons and table fields provide insight into device polling outcomes and plan performance. Plans can be defined in Vantage, but are executed in Guardian sensors, or Arc sensors that are connected to Guardian. Vantage receives the result of those executions via the usual synchronization process.
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Pause a Smart Polling plan
Temporarily suspend a Smart Polling plan without deleting it. Use this option to stop polling activity while preserving the plan configuration. The plan can be resumed at any time.

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.
- User Guide
  Information about the main features of Vantage and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
  - Sensors
    The Sensors page shows all the sensors connected to your Vantage system.
  - Alerts
    The Alerts page shows all the alerts notifications that your sensors pass to Vantage related to security incidents in your network. This page lets you learn about the alerts, edit their values and post comments.
  - Assets
    The Assets page shows all the physical components and systems that Vantage has detected through your sensors. Composed of one or more nodes, assets are the fundamental resources that Vantage protects.
  - Wireless
    The Wireless page lets you buy and connect a Guardian Air sensor. Once you have connected one or more Guardian Air sensor, the Wireless page show the connected Guardian Air sensors.
  - Queries
    The Queries page lets you write queries for your system. You can also save queries and assertions to be used again.
  - Vulnerabilities
    The Vulnerabilities page shows a list of all the vulnerabilities that Vantage has detected in your system. Vulnerabilities are weaknesses that reduce the security of your system and give threat actors an opportunity to exploit your system.
  - Vantage IQ
    Vantage IQ helps you navigate and explore your network. You can use smart query commands to leverage advanced machine learning and data analytic algorithms to dive deeper into your data.
  - Network
    The Network page shows a visual representation of your network and all its assets.
  - Graph
    Displays a visual map of your network, highlighting asset connections and communication paths. Users can switch between network and physical views to explore infrastructure relationships.
  - Process
    The Process page shows a list of processes in your environment. Processes are a set of repeatable functions that a business does to deliver a core value.
  - Dashboards
    The Dashboards page shows a list of all the dashboards that have been created.
  - Reports
    The Reports page shows all the reports that the sensors in your system have created.
  - Sites
    The Sites page shows all the geographical locations of the assets in your system. It lets you associate a site to one or more network domains. You can also add details such as the country or city of the site.
  - Workbooks
    The Workbooks page shows recommended courses of action that can improve your network security. Generated through machine learning, workbooks highlight the vulnerabilities currently creating the highest risk exposure.
  - Threat Intelligence
    The Threat Intelligence page shows an overview of all of the available threat cards and categories. It also lets you filter the threat cards to show only malware, threat actors, or vulnerabilities
  - Asset Risk
    The Asset Risk page provides an in-depth view of asset risk levels. This includes an overview, detailed analysis, and benchmark comparisons to help assess and manage risks effectively.
  - Smart Polling
    Smart Polling provides a centralized interface for creating, managing, and monitoring polling plans within your organization. It helps you streamline data collection and control monitoring activities from one location.
    - Overview
      Learn how Smart Polling plans are displayed, managed, and executed in the Vantage platform. This includes understanding plan statuses, how to add or search for plans, and how to interpret result data. Icons and table fields provide insight into device polling outcomes and plan performance. Plans can be defined in Vantage, but are executed in Guardian sensors, or Arc sensors that are connected to Guardian. Vantage receives the result of those executions via the usual synchronization process.
      - Plan creation
        Learn how to create a Smart Polling plan by choosing a strategy, defining parameters, adding targets and credentials, and scheduling when data collection runs. Customize each step to control how and when your sensors gather information. Use recurrence or interval scheduling to automate plan execution.
      - Automatically add a plan
      - Manually add a plan
      - Centralized plan management
        Vantage displays progressive Smart Polling plans from connected sensors and lets you merge duplicates into a single centrally managed plan.
      - Actions menu
        Pause a Smart Polling plan
        Temporarily suspend a Smart Polling plan without deleting it. Use this option to stop polling activity while preserving the plan configuration. The plan can be resumed at any time.
        Resume a Smart Polling plan
        Reactivate a previously paused Smart Polling plan to resume automated monitoring. This action restarts polling using the plan’s saved configuration. Useful for restoring regular monitoring activity after a pause.
        Edit a Smart Polling plan
        Modify an existing Smart Polling plan to adjust its configuration or update associated settings. Editing a plan lets you fine-tune monitoring behavior. Ensure changes align with your system monitoring goals.
        Delete a Smart Polling plan
        Delete an existing Smart Polling plan to remove obsolete or unneeded monitoring configurations. This action is permanent and cannot be undone. Use caution when confirming the deletion.
    - Smart Polling results
      Smart Polling retrieves details from nodes to enrich asset data. This enriched information also enables other information to be enriched, such as hardware components, common platform enumeration (CPEs), and related vulnerabilities. When the Simple Network Management Protocol strategy (SNMP) strategy is used, it also populates the Physical graph in the Graph page.
    - Activity Log
      Use the Activity Log page in Vantage to inspect the history of Smart Polling activities. Each record in the table represents an execution of a Smart Polling plan on a specific node from a Nozomi Networks sensor.
  - Compliance
    The Compliance page lets you scan Arc sensors against SCAP and STIG benchmarks, group benchmarks into versioned policies, run scans on demand or on schedules, and review results with support for per-rule overrides.
  - Segmentation Advisor
    The Segmentation Advisor page helps you assess and improve your network segmentation by identifying risks and recommending actions.
  - Integrations
    The Data integrations page lets you connect Vantage to external systems by adding and managing data importers and exporters.
  - Async operations
    The Async operations page lets you keep track of tasks that are being executed in the background, and it shows their outcome once that they are completed.
  - What's new drawer
    The What's new drawer shows a list of new features, enhancements, and fixes for issues.
  - Administration
  - Profile settings
    The profile settings menu lets you edit your user settings and update your profile.
  - Organizations menu
    The organizations menu lets you search or show a list of all of your organizations, and lets you switch between them. Vantage provides a default organization, but administrators can add more organizations as necessary.

Pause a Smart Polling plan

Temporarily suspend a Smart Polling plan without deleting it. Use this option to stop polling activity while preserving the plan configuration. The plan can be resumed at any time.

About this task

When you pause a Smart Polling plan, it temporarily disables its polling activity without removing its configuration. This is useful when you want to stop monitoring for maintenance, troubleshooting, or scheduling reasons, but plan to resume later.

Procedure

In the top navigation bar, select > Smart Polling.
The Smart Polling page opens.
From the list of Smart Polling plans on the left, select the applicable plan.
In the top right corner, select Actions.
Select Pause Plan.

Results

The Smart Polling plan has been paused.