Managing Tags

You can create tags to serve as customized labels that help users identify, organize, and search the following objects in Secure Configuration Manager:

endpoints
policy templates

Your console administrator might create a common set of tags or allow console users to create their own tags.

For more information about this software product, see the NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager documentation.

Understand Tag Names

To reduce confusion and the potential for duplicate tags, tag names are not case-sensitive. For example, if you create a tag named PCI, Secure Configuration Manager will not allow you to create a second tag named pci.

Tag names are limited to 64 characters, including spaces and underscores ( _ ). Tag descriptions can be no more than 255 characters.

View the Tag Associations

You can view which objects are associated with a particular tag. An association represents the link between a tag and the objects mapped to that tag.

NOTE:When you delete a tag, you also remove all of the associations for that tag.

Select Utilities > Tags.
For the tag whose associations you want to view, select the numeric value in the Associations column.

For example, if you have a UNIX tag with 18 associations, select 18.

Create and Apply Tags

Any console user can create and apply a tag. You can also apply multiple tags to each object.

Select one or more endpoints or policy templates.
Click Tag.
(Conditional) To apply an existing tag, complete the following steps:
1. Select a tag from the list or search for the tag.
  
  For more information, see Search Query Criteria.
2. Click +.
(Conditional) To apply a new tag, click Create tag & apply.
1. Specify a name and description for the tag.
  
  For more information, see Understand Tag Names.
2. Click Create.
Click Apply.

For more information, see Tag Endpoints and Tags for policy templates.

Modify and Delete Tags

To modify or delete tags, select Utilities > Tags.

You can always modify or delete the tags that you create. If you have an Administrator role, you can modify or delete tags created by any console user.

For more information about modifying a tag name, see Understand Tag Names.

Search for Tags

You can search for tags or items by their associated tags, based on a wide variety of criteria. For more information, see Using Search.