Glossary

The definitions below cover the commonly used terms you will meet throughout the documentation, so you can learn them before you need them.

Terms

Alerts

Alerts fire when an event matches a rule defined in the Rules Engine.

Analysis reports

Analysis reports run as tasks rather than being generated on the fly. They are static, so if your inventory changes, assets may no longer be reachable from the report.

Asset

An asset is a unique network entity from the perspective of the system running the Explorer.

Automatic queries

Automatic queries are queries you always want to run after a scan. Their results appear in the queries table.

Dashboard

The dashboard shows trend data and insights that help you see how your inventory changes over time.

Discovery scan

A discovery scan finds and identifies all the connected devices and assets on your internal network, then builds an inventory of them.

Explorer

The Explorer is a lightweight scan engine for network and asset discovery.

Insights

Insights are queries that run automatically after each scan and populate your dashboard.

Inventory

The inventory lists every asset in the Organization and can be sorted and filtered.

Organization

An organization is a distinct entity: your business, a department within it, or one of your customers.

Outliers

Outliers show how often different values occur in specific attributes of assets and services.

Queries

Queries are filters you apply to your Inventory to find assets of interest.

Rules

A rule defines the action runZero takes when a set of conditions is met. You can create rules that alert your team to changes in things like Explorers, assets, scans, organizations, and sites.

Scheduled scans

Scheduled scans run your scan task at a date and frequency you set.

Self-hosted

The self-hosted version of runZero lets you run the entire platform on-premises or in your own cloud environment.

Site

A site is a distinct network segment, usually defined by addressing or accessibility.