9 Using Notifications

The page Notifications offers an overview of system messages about important events in OPENVAS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE. These can be success messages as well as warnings or error messages.

The notifications can be used for debugging purposes.

9.1 Viewing Notifications

All existing notifications can be displayed by selecting Notifications in the menu.

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Fig. 9.1 Notifications page

For all notifications, the following information is displayed:

Name

Type of the event that occurred.

Description

Detailed description of the event.

Moving the cursor over the descriptions displays a tooltip containing the whole message.

Occurrence

Date and time the event occurred.

Level

  • An action finished successfully, or a user interaction was carried out successfully. Examples:

    • An SBOM scan finished successfully.

    • The download of new CSAF files finished successfully.

    • An SBOM scan was canceled successfully.

    • The download of new CSAF files was canceled successfully.

    • An import from an appliance was started.

    • An import from an appliance was finished successfully.

  • An action failed due to a faulty user interference. Example:

    • An SBOM scan was interrupted by a server shutdown.

  • An action failed due to an incorrect configuration. Examples:

    • The download of new CSAF files failed due to an error on the CSAF provider side.

    • An SBOM main CPE generation failed because the necessary fields are invalid.

    • An import from an appliance failed.

Origin

Action and/or item to which the message refers, for example an SBOM scan, successful download from a specific CSAF source, or an data import from an appliance.

9.2 Filtering Notifications

The list of notifications can be filtered as described in Chapter 5.4.

Note

If a filter delivers no results, the table with the list of notifications shows No data available.