{"id":9024,"date":"2026-10-22T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/support-articles\/how-to-add-friendly-name-for-scan-targets-in-elements-exposure-management\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:12:28","slug":"how-to-add-friendly-name-for-scan-targets-in-elements-exposure-management","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/how-to-add-friendly-name-for-scan-targets-in-elements-exposure-management\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add friendly name for scan targets in Elements Exposure Management?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>For devices without DNS or host name that are only shown as an IP address on the <strong>Network Scans <\/strong>page in the Elements Security Center portal,\u00a0how to add friendly name or change the name of the scan targets in Elements Exposure Management?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>If you want to add a name for a target device scanned by Elements Exposure Management scan node (Network Scan \/ System Scan), you can do that in the Elements Security Center portal by following these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the Elements Security Center portal<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>Security configurations &gt; Scans<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Network scans <\/strong>page<\/li>\n<li>Expand a scan group\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Find the target host and click the <strong>three dots <\/strong>on the right side and select\u00a0<b>Edit scan settings<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Scan<\/strong>\u00a0<b>Targets <\/b>section, add a name to the <strong>Name <\/strong>field<\/li>\n<li>Click <b>Next<\/b> until you reach <b>Other settings<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Click <b>Finish<\/b> to save the settings<br \/>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For devices without DNS or host name, how to add friendly name or change the name of the scan targets in Elements Exposure Management?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[108],"class_list":["post-9024","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000008217","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-22 11:12:28","import_hash":"d0ea184c10c3fec5664db551b9173945aa8ef9b4","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/9024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}