Approve or reject an unassign request in Vulnerability Response

Approve requests for the removal of vulnerable items from an assignment group or an individual user in the Vulnerability Response application.

Before you begin

Role required: For unassign approvals, one approver is required in the Approver – Level 1 group.

• sn_vul.unassign_approver for AVITs and VITs
• sn_vul_container.unassign_approver for CVITs

About this task

By default, an approval configuration is provided and an unassign approval group is created. Users of the Unassign Approver - Level 1 group can approve the request. This group contains an unassign approver role, sn_vul.unassign_approver, by default. You can modify or create a new group and update the approval configuration. To configure an approval rule, select any of the following approval rule in the Approval Rules module and navigate to the approval configuration on the Approval Configurations tab:

• Vulnerable item field change request for a vulnerable item.
• Vulnerability field change request for a remediation task.
• Application vulnerability field change request for an application vulnerable item (AVIT).
• Approval for container management for a container vulnerable item (CVIT).

For more information on approval rules and configurations, see Approval workflow configurations for unassign request.

Important:

You can approve or reject requests in the Vulnerability Manager Workspace. .

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Vulnerability Response > My Approvals for VITs and AVITs.
   Alternatively, navigate to All > Container Vulnerability Response > My Approvals for CVITs.
2. Select a request from your queue.
3. Approve or reject the request by adding the appropriate comments.