docs: Self review of doc pages
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@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ against the security advisories published by that server's own distribution and
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raises a finding for anything not yet patched.
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Requires the **vulnerability scanning** feature on your licence. Without it,
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agents collect nothing at all — there is no inventory stored and no findings
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page to read.
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nothing is collected and there is no findings page. See
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[Licensing and entitlements](../hq/licensing-and-entitlements.md).
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## What gets scanned
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Windows servers are not scanned.
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Some distributions publish no machine-readable advisory feed. Those servers
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show **unsupported** on their own page rather than appearing as having no
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vulnerabilities — the two are very different answers, and only one of them is
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good news.
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Some distributions publish no security advisories Vantage can read. Those
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servers are shown as **unsupported**, rather than as having no vulnerabilities.
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Those are very different answers, and only one of them is good news.
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## Why versions look "wrong"
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@@ -43,9 +42,9 @@ the accurate one for the package you are actually running.
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## The board
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`/vulnerabilities` groups findings by CVE. One row per CVE with the number of
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affected servers, expandable to the individual servers — the same CVE across
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forty machines is one decision, not forty.
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The **Vulnerabilities** page groups findings by CVE, one row each, with the
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number of servers affected. Expand a row to see them. The same CVE across forty
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machines is usually one decision, not forty.
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Severity counts at the top filter the list when clicked. The state tabs switch
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between **open**, **accepted** and **fixed**.
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@@ -60,8 +59,8 @@ A finding with a known fixed version gets an **Apply updates** button, which
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runs the same OS update the server page offers. There is no separate patching
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mechanism.
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Vantage never patches automatically. An unattended upgrade triggered by a third
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party's data feed is a fleet-wide change nobody chose.
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Vantage never patches automatically. Applying updates is always something you
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ask for.
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## Accepting a finding
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@@ -72,23 +71,21 @@ or one with no vendor fix published at all.
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a reason that is recorded in the audit log along with your name. On that date it
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reopens by itself.
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The expiry is required. A dismissal with no end date is how a finding gets
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forgotten, and it is exactly what an auditor will ask to see.
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An expiry date is required, so nothing is dismissed permanently by accident.
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## Alerts
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Alert rules live with your notification channels, under
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**Settings → Notification Channels**. A rule has a minimum severity, an optional
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server tag filter, and one or more channels.
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Alert rules live with your
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[notification channels](./notification-channels.md). A rule has a minimum
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severity, an optional server tag filter, and the channels to notify.
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A rule sends **one digest per scan** summarising what newly opened — never one
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message per finding. A database refresh can open several hundred findings at
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once, and a message each would flood the channel.
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A rule sends **one summary per scan** covering everything newly found, rather
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than one message per finding. A single update to the security data can raise
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hundreds at once.
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Findings that were already open do not re-alert.
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## Fleet-wide package search
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`GET /api/packages/search?name=openssl` answers which servers run a given
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package and at what version, across the whole fleet. Useful during an incident
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before a finding exists for it.
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Search your whole fleet for a package by name to see which servers have it and
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at what version. Useful during an incident, before there is a finding for it.
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