About Assimilation Actions for Network Integrity

Assimilation actions perform additional processing on existing Network Integrity data, typically from the network, to derive or construct additional information, and to save the assimilated data in the Results Model. An assimilation action can use the results from a discovery or import scan or from another assimilation scan as input for additional processing.

Network Integrity users trigger assimilation actions by running an assimilation scan.

For example, an assimilation action might be used to derive connectivity relationships between endpoints discovered by previous scans.

Assimilated data is saved in the Information Model. Assimilated data is flagged as having come from a network system. The Network Integrity UI displays and reports on the assimilated data.

An assimilation action must be configured with a valid result category. See "About Result Categories for Network Integrity" for more information.